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+ | ====== TOR ====== | ||
+ | ===== What is Tor? ===== | ||
- | Enable | + | Tor ("The Onion Router" |
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- | Selected | + | When you use the Tor browser, the Tor network doesn' |
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+ | The encryption process that Tor software users obscures the user's identity, requests, communications, | ||
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+ | For details about how Tor works, see this posting: [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Limitations ==== | ||
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+ | === Speed === | ||
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+ | Encryption, anonymization and multiple hops have tradeoffs. Tor slows your network traffic, since the path packets take is more complex (circuitous) than with normal traffic. You will probably not want to send interactive traffic over the Tor network. It also recommended that you do heavy downloading (such as Torrents) via Tor. The multiple hops increase latency significantly. | ||
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+ | === Domain resolution === | ||
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+ | The Tor network includes its own internal DNS system specifically authoritative for the " | ||
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+ | ===== TOR Settings ===== | ||
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+ | **Enable TOR:** enables the Tor client. | ||
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+ | **Socks Port:** | ||
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+ | **Trans Port:** FIXME | ||
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+ | **DNS Port: | ||
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+ | **Data Directory: | ||
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+ | **Only resolve | ||
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+ | Note that you must also enable the // | ||
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+ | **Redirect all users from: **lets you specify the source LANs/client IP addresses to be be permitted to use Tor. | ||
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+ | * LANx - lets you choose specific subnets whose client devices \\ will be allowed to access Tor sites. | ||
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+ | **Redirect TCP Ports:** narrows the Tor redirection rule to destination | ||
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+ | * HTTP only (TCP 80) | ||
+ | * HTTP + HTTPS (TCP 80 + TCP 443) | ||
+ | * Selected Ports | ||
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+ | **Custom Configuration:** here, define custom/ | ||
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+ | ===== TOR Notes and Troubleshooting ===== | ||
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+ | **Warning: | ||
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