Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk.

Name: Privoxy
HomePage: http://www.privoxy.org/
Function: Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy.

Name: tor
HomePage: http://tor.eff.org
Function: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.

1. Firstly we'll need to download and install privoxy, privoxy has just recently become a supported package in Fedora Coe 5 so it can be installed with yum.

yum install privoxy

2. Next we need to edit the privoxy config file & Add the following two lines.

nano /etc/privoxy/config

3. Privoxy keeps a log file of everything passed through it. In order to stop this you will need to comment out two lines by inserting a # before the line. The two lines are:

nano /etc/privoxy/config

4. Now we need to download libevent

http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

5. Now unzip and run the installation commands

tar -xvf libevent-1.1a.tar.gz

./configure && make

make install

6. Next we need to download tor frm the tor website

http://tor.eff.org/

7. Next we need to install tor

tar -xvf tor-0.1.0.17.tar.gz

8. Now run the installation commands

./configure && make

make install

9. Now we need to set the for config file

cd /usr/local/etc/tor

cp torrc.sample torrc

10. Now set both tor and privoxy to start on boot up

chkconfig  privoxy on

nano /etc/rc.d/rc.local

/usr/local/bin/tor &

11. Now you have to configure your Internet Browser to use the following proxys

for this example the ip address of the privoxy and tor server will be 192.168.0.254

http: 192.168.0.254 8118

ssl: 192.168.0.254 8118

ftp: 192.168.0.254 8118

gopher: 192.168.0.254 8118

socks: 192.168.0.254 9050

12. Once all the proxy server information has been put in you should try using your browser with Tor and make sure that your IP address is being anonymized.

http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1

BookMarking:

cell1

cell3

cell4

Trouble Shooting:

Go to the wiki page

Go to the 'Contact Us ' Forum

Go to the how-to's Support Forum

External Links:

http://tor.eff.org