[guardian-dev] orbot + privoxy

[henrik.uggla at hem.utfors.se]

 I'll take the opportunity to ask a question too.

 I've tried to set exit nodes to {se} in the Orbot settings but it 
 doesn't
 work. Am I using wrong syntax?

 /U

 On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:55:25 -0400, Nathan of Guardian 
 <nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> On 10/19/2013 05:19 PM, farinet wrote:
>> Now, seems to me looking at the installation, that orbot in some way 
>> is
>> a preconfigured combo of privoxy and tor: is that correct?
>
> Yes, it is. Tor itself only offers SOCKS proxying built-in, and we
> wanted to be sure that we could also support HTTP based proxying, 
> since
> that is more common. This is the standard approach various Tor
> distributions have taken for some time.
>
>  And if so, is
>> there a way to configure the privoxy filtering manually? I looked 
>> into
>> /etc but i didn't see - at a first glance - any privoxy related 
>> config
>> file ... (?)
>
> If you have root, you can look under 
> /data/data/org.torproject.android
> for the privoxy configuration files.
>
>>> Moreover, if there is privoxy as the standard (127.0.0.1:8118) 
>>> proxy is
>> it set to foreward automatically socks 4a to tor? If so, there would 
>> be
>> no need to set the forward socks in the firefox mobile proxy 
>> settings
>> (http and https -> localhost:8118 would be sufficient. Is that 
>> correct
>> thinking?
>
> Yes, but SOCKS proxying is faster and more secure. It does a better 
> job
> of ensuring your DNS does not leak, and is in general, faster.
>
>> And finally, would there be, eventually, any hassle, having a tablet
>> with orbot, using a local network which goes thru a raspberry/tor 
>> box to
>> the wan (since it passes in some way 2 times thru tor)?
>
> Hmm, I am really not sure. Seems inefficient to run Tor through Tor! 
> :)
>
> +n
>
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