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Tor

2011-01-08T20:36:52Z

Areko: Removed stub marker... I guess the page is mostly detailed enough now.

'''Tor''' is a distributed 'onion' network, that makes it more difficult for an adversary to track any one peer on the network. Tor also is very useful to access the 'uncensored' internet in countries such as China and Iran.

Bitcoin can run easily on the Tor network.

=GUI=
From Bitcoin client menu select Settings -> Options 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-options.png]] 

Check "Connect through socks 4 proxy" with the address 127.0.0.1 and port 9050 (the Tor default port number) 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-client-tor-as-proxy.png]] 
Configuring an application to use Tor is also called to torify it.
(needs a brief howto here)

Conducting business using [[bitcoin-otc]] can be done more anonymously when directly connected to a Freenode IRC hidden service.

=bitcoind=

Run bitcoind with -proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 (or whatever your SocksPort is).

=Hidden services=
These services are running within the tor network. You can connect to them for example using the -connect= parameter to bitcoind. Note that you do not need to use them - tor can also anonymize your normal internet traffic, including bitcoin connections. There are some technical reasons why hidden services may be beneficial, see the tor documentation if you're really interested.

Please add your service here if you run a stable bitcoin node under a tor hidden service.
* iy6ni3wkqazp4ytu.onion

=External links=

* [http://tor.eff.org/ Tor project]
* [http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor Freenode over Tor info]
* [http://wiki.honk-honk.org/wiki/SaslServ#mIRC howto enable SASL in mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/SASL.dll SASL.dll library for mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/sasl.mrc sasl script for mIRC]
* [http://freenode.net/sasl/ Freenode resources on SASL]

Tor

2011-01-08T20:35:33Z

Areko: Split article into GUI and bitcoind sections

{{stub}}

'''Tor''' is a distributed 'onion' network, that makes it more difficult for an adversary to track any one peer on the network. Tor also is very useful to access the 'uncensored' internet in countries such as China and Iran.

Bitcoin can run easily on the Tor network.

=GUI=
From Bitcoin client menu select Settings -> Options 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-options.png]] 

Check "Connect through socks 4 proxy" with the address 127.0.0.1 and port 9050 (the Tor default port number) 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-client-tor-as-proxy.png]] 
Configuring an application to use Tor is also called to torify it.
(needs a brief howto here)

Conducting business using [[bitcoin-otc]] can be done more anonymously when directly connected to a Freenode IRC hidden service.

=bitcoind=

Run bitcoind with -proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 (or whatever your SocksPort is).

=Hidden services=
These services are running within the tor network. You can connect to them for example using the -connect= parameter to bitcoind. Note that you do not need to use them - tor can also anonymize your normal internet traffic, including bitcoin connections. There are some technical reasons why hidden services may be beneficial, see the tor documentation if you're really interested.

Please add your service here if you run a stable bitcoin node under a tor hidden service.
* iy6ni3wkqazp4ytu.onion

=External links=

* [http://tor.eff.org/ Tor project]
* [http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor Freenode over Tor info]
* [http://wiki.honk-honk.org/wiki/SaslServ#mIRC howto enable SASL in mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/SASL.dll SASL.dll library for mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/sasl.mrc sasl script for mIRC]
* [http://freenode.net/sasl/ Freenode resources on SASL]

Tor

2011-01-08T20:30:16Z

Areko:

{{stub}}

'''Tor''' is a distributed 'onion' network, that makes it more difficult for an adversary to track any one peer on the network. Tor also is very useful to access the 'uncensored' internet in countries such as China and Iran.

Bitcoin can run easily on the Tor network.
From Bitcoin client menu select Settings -> Options 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-options.png]] 

Check "Connect through socks 4 proxy" with the address 127.0.0.1 and port 9050 (the Tor default port number) 
[[{{ns:file}}:20110108-btc-client-tor-as-proxy.png]] 
Configuring an application to use Tor is also called to torify it.
(needs a brief howto here)

Conducting business using [[bitcoin-otc]] can be done more anonymously when directly connected to a Freenode IRC hidden service.

==Hidden services==
These services are running within the tor network. You can connect to them for example using the -connect= parameter to bitcoind.

Please add your service here if you run a stable bitcoin node under a tor hidden service.
* iy6ni3wkqazp4ytu.onion

==External links==

* [http://tor.eff.org/ Tor project]
* [http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor Freenode over Tor info]
* [http://wiki.honk-honk.org/wiki/SaslServ#mIRC howto enable SASL in mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/SASL.dll SASL.dll library for mIRC]
* [http://honk-honk.org/SASL/sasl.mrc sasl script for mIRC]
* [http://freenode.net/sasl/ Freenode resources on SASL]