Revision of Tor from Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:44

The goal of this manual is to help users setup tor and connect to the tor anonymity network.

What is Tor?

Official Documentation: Tor Tor: Overview

Tor describes itself as "a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet."

By using tor users can remain anonymous when using the web or bypass censorship on the Internet.

In 2010 Tor won the Free Software Foundation's Award for Projects of Social Benefit

Installing Tor

Official Documentation: Tor on Ubuntu or Debian (or Trisquel)

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb     http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org $DISTRIBUTION main

$DISTRIBUTION corresponds to the Ubuntu codename that matches the Trisquel version you are running.

• Trisquel 5.0 is "natty"
• Trisquel 4.5 is "maverick"
• Trisquel 4.0 is "lucid"
• Trisquel 3.5 is "karmic"

Use the following two commands to download the gpg key used to sign the Tor packages and add them to your APT key management utility

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

Use the apt-get update command to resynchronize the package index files from their sources.

apt-get update

The tor project also provides a package to keep our signing key current. Install it using:

apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring

Install tor by running the command:

apt-get install tor

Configuring programs to use Tor

• Connect to Freenode's IRC server anonymously with Tor

Additional information

• https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project
• FSF: 2010 Free Software Awards announced
• FSF: Are you up to the Tor challenge?