Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis

Instructions for installing and running the Tor client on Linux:
http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

Software packages

tor-0.2.1.24-i686-q.pet
polipo-1.0.4.1-q.pet
libevent-1.4.13-i686-q.pet
openssl-0.9.8m-q.pet
tor-0.2.1.24-i686-p4.pet
polipo-1.0.4.1-p4.pet
libevent-1.4.13-i686-p4.pet
openssl-0.9.8l-p4.pet

After installation, and having configured the Web browser to use Polipo, start the programs in this order:
Menu > Internet > Polipo
Menu > Internet > Tor
Menu > Internet > SeaMonkey [Opera, Firefox]

Confirmation of whether or not Tor is being used:
For the web browser to be able to make use of Tor, both Tor and Polipo need to be running.
https://check.torproject.org/

Configuring a Tor relay

The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out Tor by configuring your Tor to be a relay too.

Changelog

http://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=ChangeLog



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