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How can find my Amazon EC2 Bridge with Globe

I installed a cloud bridge on Amazon EC2. Now I wanted to find it using Globe (http://globe.rndm.de/). But what name do I search for? I didn't choose one.
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Is Tor a P2P network?

I have a question regarding Tor that has got me a bit confused lately. Could someone please tell me is Tor a P2P network? Thank you.
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OpenWRT - route all the traffic through Tor

Passing through all the traffic in the router to Tor sounds like a good idea. But there aren't any good documentations about the implementation of this idea. Could anyone please explain, how can someone, that has an OpenWRT flashed, example cheap…
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How secure is downloading Tor from a PPA vs. from official website?

I use Tor browser on Ubuntu and every time it updates, I have to download and unpack the binaries again. This is a bit annoying, so I would prefer to use a PPA. I found this ppa by the webupd8team, but how safe is it to install from this source when…
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transparent proxy .onion firewall rules

I am configuring a tor hardware router as an anonymizing transparent proxy using the info here and the good news is everything is working as it should; I can connect and browse sites, dns is forwarded to port 9053 and everything else tcp is…
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Circuit Build Times in Tor

Why does Tor save the circuit build times and what does it want to learn out of them? Tor loads the circuit build times from a file at the beginning. I do not know why it needs them.
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What threat model is Qubes OS TorVM most appropriate for?

Why would someone want to use Tor through a TorVM in Qubes, compared to other approaches? This page compares TorVM to Whonix, Tails, and Tor Browser but doesn't come to a firm conclusion as to which is "best". This is because, as the article states,…
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How to connect to freenode using Tor?

I want to chat on a channel which is on freenode. I need to use Tor for anonymity. What IRC client should I use and how do I configure to connect to freenode?
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Why isn't there any such option - middle-relay behind NAT?

Why is it still required have two open ports, DirPort and OrPort, for a relay? Imagine such a situation. A Tor user with unlimited network traffic and with that kind great bandwidth stay behind a NAT router without the ability to forward two ports,…
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How to configure IPv6-enabled bridge?

I'm looking for a valid configuration of an IPv6-enabled Tor Bridge. I have working IPv6-enabled relays, now I'd like to have a bridge (and not to loose IPv4 clients). I wonder if adding the following configuration will be enough: BridgeRelay…
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How to interpret the Circuit handshake stats?

What do the numbers in Circuit handshake stats since last time: 1833867/1833868 TAP, 159257/159257 NTor. mean? Is it how many of them were completed?
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OnionBrowser for iOS -- how secure is it?

Currently it seems there are no torproject.org "officially sanctioned" solutions for iOS. However, there is a browser called OnionBrowser that passes check.torproject.org and is able to access hidden services on the tor network. So my question is,…
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Adding/removing hidden services while not affecting the others

I want to host multiple hidden services on the same Tor instance and have the ability to add/remove "programmaticaly" hidden services while Tor is running. As of now I would update a Torrc file and send a "RELOAD" signal on the instance's control…
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How to use Tor behind a http-only proxy?

A proxy supports only http. No http"s". Connect method not supported. In other words, a client can only visit http port 80. Anything else is unsupported. Can Tor be used in such an environment? How? EDIT: This questions is not about DPI. It is about…
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Developing a Tor library

I want to incorporate Tor in my application in order to access a Tor hidden service. Make GET POST requests to the web server. Is there any resource I can read to implement a simple Tor client that will allow me to send requests to a webservice ?
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