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The Onion Router Wiki

• Official Tor homepage

• Official documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions. Sometimes with answers.

• Sample Hidden Service

• Another Sample Hidden Service. This will redirect to Tor Project Homepage

• A fine example of a hidden service.

• The Tor FAQ-wiki - Please add your question and/or its answer!

• Volunteer

• The How do I forward a port section in the FAQ is very Linux-specific, and not very heavily tested; please add instructions for more platforms.

• Is it possible to get autoconf to easily install things into ~/.tor?

• The list of stuff the developers know they need to do

Documentation

Using Tor with ...

• Guide on how to Tor-ify various applications by Thomas Sjogren

• A list of programs you might want to use in association with Tor

• Run Tor client on a remote machine and connect with a client ssh by tyranix

• How to Configure Firefox for Easy Usage with Tor by PowerPenguin

• How to Prevent IP security leaks with the NoScript Firefox Extension by PowerPenguin

• Hacking Firefox's Configuration for Better Tor Performance by PowerPenguin

Using Tor with (II)...

• JanusVM lets ANY application work with Tor. No need to reconfigure any of your applications. Has a nice Flash video for the really easy installation.

• Squid and Tor by Martin Peck (Outdated by JanusVM)

• Tor and IPCop Linux

• Using Tor with Camino by xen ix

• Running Tor on AVM Fritz!Box (german) by knox

• A Layman's Guide to Understanding and Using Tor

Installing and Configuring Tor

• Operational security for Tor

• Transparently routing traffic through Tor: Using Tor's transparent proxy feature

Unixish

• Run Tor in a chroot by StevenMurdoch

• Tor packages on Debian

• Scripts for setting up Tor in an OpenBSD chroot by tyranix

• Run Tor client in an OpenBSD chroot (see above script) by tyranix

• A Bash shell script which will generate the server section of your torrc file

• Configuring Tor to have flexible bandwidth policies through Cron Jobs in Unix by Silivrenion

• Bandwidth Controller Script for Tor by BogdanDrozdowski

• How-to run Tor, Vidalia and Polipo from USB without install by LightZoo

• How to block all local outbound non-Tor traffic in Debian

• How to prevent Firefox from writing browsing data to your hard drive

Win32

• JanusVM transparently routes all traffic through Tor. Works will every windows application. No need to reconfigure any of your browser or application settings. Has a nice Flash video for the easy installation.

• Complete Tor walkthrough for Windows users by Steve Topletz

• Win32 Lightweight Web Servers by JasonRutberg

• Win32 TorCP controller "Run as service" fix by C. Wilson

• Put Tor on a USB Flash drive

• Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor

• Easy use of Tor signals on Win32 by Anothony Georgeo

• Polipo: (Privoxy alternative) Install and configure the fast caching HTTP proxy by Phillip

Live CD / USB

• Anonymity Anywhere, Knoppix + Tor + TorK

• ROCKate Based on the ROCKate Linux distribution. Small and lightweight.

• Incognito LiveCD/USB, Gentoo based

• Live CD Best Practices, for users and devs alike

• Privatix LiveCD/USB, Debian + Tor + Firefox + Torbutton + persistent system, config and home on an encrypted usb-key

Embedded

• Tips and Links for running Tor in an embedded environment

Miscellaneous

• Tor attacks and suggested solutions

  • End-to-end attacks and suggested solutions

  • Fingerprinting attacks and suggested solutions

• Good/bad ISPs for running Tor servers

• Preventing DNS Leaks in Tor with dsocks by tyranix

• Hidden services naming scheme demystified by bebop

• List of services running on alternative ports

• How to set up publicfile (HTTP server for Unix) with Tor for hidden services by Greg Hewgill

• Explanations of commonly seen warning messages in Tor's logfile

• A list of patches to make tsocks more useful and more suitable for use with Tor

• A list of ideas about how to make Privoxy more useful and more suitable for use with Tor

• Development of a solution to allow Tor users to participate in Wikipedia

• Preventing DNS Leaks by chemicalx

• Tips for keeping your Tor exit node running at your university/ISP/etc

• Using Tor to speak anonymously at a technical conference

• Photos of the Tor T-Shirt in action!

• Howto always run privoxy and only switch between tor on/off

• A partial list of pages that don't like Tor or need it reconfigured.

• How to run a web proxy with tor

• Running a mirror of the official Tor Project Website

• Important security information for Squid Proxy users! by PowerPenguin

• TorDNSEL, a Tor DNS-based Exit List.

Random stuff

• Are you using Tor?

• Number of running routers over time

• Status and Node Listing (also features the Tor detector and Browser check).

• Tor Network Status

• Tor Network Status

• Protect your local IP address with LibHideIP

• LibSecRm: Wipe private data insecurely deleted by any program on-the-fly

• Wipe insecurely deleted private data with WipeFreeSpace

Binary packages

Debian packages have been uploaded to the set of official unstable (sid) and testing (etch) Debian packages. If you are running stable or Ubuntu, you must first add some lines to /etc/apt/sources.list. SeeTor packages on Debian, which has the details.

FreeBSD: cd /usr/ports/security/tor && make install clean

OpenBSD: cd /usr/ports/net/tor && make && make install

NetBSD: cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/tor && make install

Gentoo: emerge tor

Tor in the media

• A list of appearances and articles

Get paid to work on Tor!

• If you're a student, come work with us full-time over the summer as part of the

  Google Summer of Code!

• Volunteers in Service to America (Americorps/VISTA) grants the Tor Project a position:

  Come work for Tor for a year to help poor people in the US use anonymity for civic engagement.

LegalStuff

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