tor
Network privacy & personal security
Software project home page: https://www.torproject.org/
Distribution: source code
A Web browser is only able to make use of Tor when:
- Web browser has the following default configuration:
- SOCKS (v5) host; with Remote DNS
- address: 127.0.0.1
- port: 9150 (arbitrarily chosen but must correspond with port number at /etc/tor/torrc)
- Tor is running, using one of the following 3 methods:
- From the menu
- From the command line
Tor is dependent on the host computer having its clock synchronized with that of the network clock.
Confirmation of successful Tor network connection:
libevent,+libseccomp,+openssl,+zlib
Build (compile) binary distribution and install
Compiling for 64-bit operating systems via the command-line interface:
CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-fexceptions -grecord-gcc-switches" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 && time make --debug=n -j 4 --output-sync --trace && time make -j 4 -k test && make install
Verify the installed software version via the command-line interface:
References
Surveillance Self-Defense
How to verify signatures for packages
Which PGP keys sign which packages?
http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/158296-spy-us-eric-king/
"Spoiled onions and Tor exit relays", N. Willis, 2014
"A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies", J. C. York, 2014
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