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This is an old revision of tor made by coolpup on 2013-07-20 08:44:56.
Tor
network privacy
The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out Tor by configuring your Tor to be a relay too.
- software package
- Tor is dependent on Polipo and libevent being installed. It is recommended that the latest, stable version of openssl is also installed.
- Tor is dependent on the host computer having its clock synchronized with that of the network clock: Psync
- the Web browser is only able to make use of Tor when:
- both Tor and Polipo are also running as well; running the above Tor package will auto-start Polipo (assuming it has already been installed)
- Menu > Network > Tor
- confirmation of successful Tor connection:
- the current Tor circuit may be terminated and a new Tor circuit established at any time:
- Menu > Network > Tor
./configure CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
How to use Tor
1. Browsing using tor is simply clicking on Tor-Browser from the Internet menu everything is already set up since it is from the Tor bundle so it is a seperate FF browser than what is used for JAP and Freedom.
2. While the Tor-Browser is faster it is much less secure and does not have security settings that are in place for the main FF browser with JAP and YourFreedom, it was included for those who wanted a little bit of security yet still somewhat decent browsing speeds, I highly recommend using Elinks with Freedom if you want to stay highly secure yet still get high browsing speeds.
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