tor and privoxy not working
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 02:08:02 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 21:50 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
[...]
> I forgot to start tor itself. Everything seems to work. Funny I
> installed tor using yum but I can't find it on the download mirrors. Is
> tor part of fedora?
# yum info tor
Loaded plugins: protectbase, refresh-packagekit
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Available Packages
Name : tor
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.1.2.19
Release : 1.fc9
Size : 428 k
Repo : fedora
Summary : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)
URL : http://tor.eff.org
License : BSD
Description: Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor
: proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay
: knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a
: symmetric key at each relay, which reveals the downstream relay. Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning.
: That means there is a danger that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
: information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem.
: This is alpha code, and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling bugs. The present
: network is very small -- this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently
: suitable for high-stakes anonymity.
poc
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