Tor && Vidalia Ports

[Jasper Frumau]

I saw at http://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html#TOR how I can configure the
config file to forward calls to tor by uncommenting

#        forward-socks5             /     127.0.0.1:9050 .

in the file config. But the config file in /opt/local/etc/privoxy seems to
be empty . So is config.new . Is this a MacPorts config setup or am I
looking in the wrong location?



On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Jasper Frumau <jasperfrumau at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Daniel Ericsson <deric at macports.org>
wrote:
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>> On 16 apr 2012, at 05:52, Jasper Frumau wrote:
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>> Now on my issues with tor from the command line:
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>> tor -help start did not help:
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>> For documentation on tor see: `man tor`
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>> $ tor -help start
>> Apr 16 09:19:45.830 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-b04388f9e7546a9f). This
is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running
on Darwin i386)
>> Apr 16 09:19:45.830 [notice] Configuration file
"/opt/local/etc/tor/torrc" not present, using reasonable defaults.
>> Apr 16 09:19:45.831 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Unknown
option 'help'.  Failing.
>> Apr 16 09:19:45.831 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
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>> But when I entered tor as a command, it did start it all up. Just not
sure how I can test it from the terminal..
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>> When I tried to use tor to test the security of a site of mine using
wpscan and tor host:port 127.0.0.1:9050 I did see this error:
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>> Apr 16 09:47:43.641 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not
an http proxy.)
>> Apr 16 09:47:43.642 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not
an http proxy.)
>> Apr 16 09:47:43.642 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not
an http proxy.)
>> Apr 16 09:47:43.643 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not
an http proxy.)
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>> Tor runs as a SOCKS proxy not as an http proxy, this is why you see this
error.
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> OK
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>> so I installed privoxy. I did no longer receive the same error and could
see the privoxy online page to see it was running. But when I pick privoxy
for all protocols in Firefox using 127.0.0.1 and port 8118 and went to
whatismyip.com I still got my ip address. So I am not sure if my
application using --proxy 127.0.0.1:8118 is really making the call
anonymous even though I did not get any errors. And there you go, when I
checked the access logs my IP address was logged.
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>> I asked for some tips at wpscan, but if anyone on the list has any ideas
what I am missing please let me know.
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>> privoxy seems to be an http proxy. By using it instead of Tor, your
traffic isn't routed through Tor - so of course you don't get any errors
and your IP isn't anonymized. You can probably set up privoxy to in turn
route it's traffic through Tor but you'll have to look to the privoxy
documentation on how to do that.
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>> To use Tor once it's started and bootstrapped. Go into System
Preferences -> Network -> Click "Advanced..." for the interface you are
connecting to the internet with -> Go to the "Proxies" tab -> Check "SOCKS
Proxy" and enter "localhost:98050" for SOCKS Proxy Server address.
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> Will check that out asap
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>> This will allow most Mac apps written to read the proxy settings to
route through Tor. Most command line apps aren't written for Mac OS X
specifically though so they need to have support for using a SOCKS and be
configured separately to use Tor's SOCKS proxy on localhost:9050.
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>> eg. curl --socks5 localhost:9050 http://yourwordpressblog.com/
>>     or
>>     curl --socks4a localhost:9050 http://yourwordpressblog.com/ - to
have the DNS resolution flow through Tor as well.
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> Cool. Thanks a lot!
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>> -- Daniel
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