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en/documentation.wml   8) <a id="RunningTor"></a>
en/documentation.wml   9) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#RunningTor">Running Tor</a></h2>
en/documentation.wml  10) <ul>

en/documentation.wml  11) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-win32>">Installing Tor

en/documentation.wml  12) on Win32</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  13) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-osx>">Installing Tor on

en/documentation.wml  14) Mac OS X</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  15) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-unix>">Installing Tor on

en/documentation.wml  16) Linux/BSD/Unix</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  17) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-switchproxy>">Installing

en/documentation.wml  18) SwitchProxy for Tor</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  19) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-server>">Configuring a

en/documentation.wml  20) Tor server</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  21) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-hidden-service>">Configuring

en/documentation.wml  22) a Tor hidden service</a></li>
en/documentation.wml  23) </ul>

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en/documentation.wml  25) <a id="Support"></a>

en/documentation.wml  26) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Support">Getting Support</a></h2>

documentation.html    27) <ul>

en/documentation.wml  28) <li>The <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">Tor

en/documentation.wml  29) Technical FAQ Wiki</a> should be the first place you look. The
en/documentation.wml  30) <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">Guide
en/documentation.wml  31) to Torifying various applications</a> is also popular. (While we

en/documentation.wml  32) monitor the Wiki page to help ensure accuracy, the Tor developers are
en/documentation.wml  33) not responsible for the content.)</li>
en/documentation.wml  34) <li>The <a href="<page faq-abuse>">Abuse FAQ</a> is a collection of
en/documentation.wml  35) common questions and issues discussed when running a Tor server.</li>
en/documentation.wml  36) <li>The <a href="<page eff/tor-legal-faq>">Tor Legal FAQ</a> is written by
en/documentation.wml  37) EFF lawyers. It aims to give you an overview of some of the legal issues
en/documentation.wml  38) that arise from the Tor project in the US.</li>
en/documentation.wml  39) <li>The <a href="<page tor-manual>">manual</a>
en/documentation.wml  40) lists all the possible entries you can put in your <a
en/documentation.wml  41) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#torrc">torrc

en/documentation.wml  42) file</a>. We also provide a <a href="<page tor-manual-dev>">manual for

en/documentation.wml  43) the development version of Tor</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml  44) <li>The <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter">Tor
en/documentation.wml  45) wiki</a> provides a plethora of helpful contributions from Tor
en/documentation.wml  46) users. Check it out!</li>
en/documentation.wml  47) <li>The Tor IRC channel (for users, server operators, and developers)
en/documentation.wml  48) is <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net/tor">#tor on irc.oftc.net</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml  49) <li>We have a <a

en/documentation.wml  50) href="http://bugs.torproject.org/tor">bugtracker</a>.

en/documentation.wml  51) If you have a bug, especially a crash bug, read <a
en/documentation.wml  52) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerCrashing">how
en/documentation.wml  53) to report a Tor bug</a> first and then tell us as much information
en/documentation.wml  54) about it as you can in the bugtracker. (If your bug is
en/documentation.wml  55) with Privoxy, your browser, or some other application, please don't put
en/documentation.wml  56) it in our bugtracker.)</li>
en/documentation.wml  57) <li>Try the or-talk mailing list <a href="#MailingLists">below</a>.
en/documentation.wml  58) <li>As a last resort, look through <a href="<page contact>">the Tor
en/documentation.wml  59) contact page</a>.</li>

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en/documentation.wml  62) <a id="MailingLists"></a>
en/documentation.wml  63) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#MailingLists">Mailing List Information</a></h2>

documentation.html    64) <ul>

en/documentation.wml  65) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/">or-announce
en/documentation.wml  66) mailing list</a> is a low volume list for announcements of new releases

en/documentation.wml  67) and critical security updates. Everybody should be on this list.
en/documentation.wml  68) There is also an
en/documentation.wml  69) <a href="http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.announce">RSS
en/documentation.wml  70) feed</a> of or-announce at <a href="http://gmane.org">gmane.org</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml  71) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/">or-talk list</a>
en/documentation.wml  72) is where a lot of discussion happens, and is where we send notifications
en/documentation.wml  73) of prerelease versions and release candidates.</li>
en/documentation.wml  74) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/">or-dev list</a>
en/documentation.wml  75) is for posting by developers only, and is very low traffic.</li>
en/documentation.wml  76) <li>A list for <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/">cvs commits</a>
en/documentation.wml  77) may be interesting for developers.</li>

documentation.html    78) </ul>
documentation.html    79) 

documentation.html    80) <a id="DesignDoc"></a>

documentation.html    81) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#DesignDoc">Design Documents</a></h2>

documentation.html    82) <ul>

en/documentation.wml  83) <li>The <b>design document</b> (published at Usenix Security 2004)
en/documentation.wml  84) gives our justifications and security analysis for the Tor design:

en/documentation.wml  85) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/tor-design.pdf">PDF</a> and
en/documentation.wml  86) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/tor-design.html">HTML</a>

en/documentation.wml  87) versions available.</li>
en/documentation.wml  88) <li>Our follow-up paper on <b>challenges in low-latency anonymity</b>

documentation.html    89) (still in draft form) details more recent experiences and directions:

en/documentation.wml  90) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/challenges.pdf">PDF

en/documentation.wml  91) draft</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml  92) <li>Our paper at WEIS 2006 &mdash; <b>Anonymity Loves Company:
en/documentation.wml  93) Usability and the Network Effect</b> &mdash; explains why usability in
en/documentation.wml  94) anonymity systems matters for their security: <a
en/documentation.wml  95) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/usability:weis2006.pdf">PDF</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml  96) <li>Our preliminary design to make it harder for large firewalls to
en/documentation.wml  97) prevent access to the Tor network is described in
en/documentation.wml  98) <b>design of a blocking-resistant anonymity system</b>:

en/documentation.wml  99) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf">PDF draft</a> and
en/documentation.wml 100) <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/blocking.html">HTML draft</a>.
en/documentation.wml 101) You can also see <a

en/documentation.wml 102) href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/slides-23c3.pdf">slides</a> and <a
en/documentation.wml 103) href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/23C3-1444-en-tor_and_china.m4v">video</a>
en/documentation.wml 104) from Roger's <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Home">23C3
en/documentation.wml 105) talk</a>. Want to <a href="<page volunteer>#Coding">help us build
en/documentation.wml 106) it</a>?</li>

en/documentation.wml 107) <li>The <b>specifications</b> aim to give
en/documentation.wml 108) developers enough information to build a compatible version of Tor:

documentation.html   109) <ul>

en/documentation.wml 110) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/tor-spec.txt">Main Tor specification</a>

en/documentation.wml 111) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/dir-spec.txt">Tor
en/documentation.wml 112) version 3 directory server specification</a> (and older <a
en/documentation.wml 113) href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/dir-spec-v1.txt">version 1</a> and <a
en/documentation.wml 114) href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt">version 2</a> directory
en/documentation.wml 115) specifications)</li>

en/documentation.wml 116) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/control-spec.txt">Tor control protocol

en/documentation.wml 117) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 118) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/rend-spec.txt">Tor rendezvous
en/documentation.wml 119) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 120) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/path-spec.txt">Tor path selection

en/documentation.wml 121) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 122) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/address-spec.txt">Special hostnames in

en/documentation.wml 123) Tor</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 124) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/socks-extensions.txt">Tor's SOCKS support
en/documentation.wml 125) and extensions</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 126) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/version-spec.txt">How Tor version numbers

en/documentation.wml 127) work</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 128) <li><a href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/proposals/">In-progress drafts of

en/documentation.wml 129) new specifications and proposed changes</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 130) </ul></li>
en/documentation.wml 131) <li>Look at the <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/wth1.pdf">slides
en/documentation.wml 132) (PDF)</a> and <a
en/documentation.wml 133) href="http://rehash.waag.org/WTH/wth-anonymous-communication-58.mp4.torrent">video
en/documentation.wml 134) (torrent)</a> from the Tor talk Roger gave at <a
en/documentation.wml 135) href="http://whatthehack.org/">What the Hack (WTH)</a>. We also have <a

documentation.html   136) href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/wth3.pdf">slides</a> and <a
documentation.html   137) href="http://rehash.waag.org/WTH/wth_tor_hidden_services.mp4.torrent">video</a>

en/documentation.wml 138) of the WTH talk on hidden services.</li>
en/documentation.wml 139) </ul>

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en/documentation.wml 141) <a id="NeatLinks"></a>
en/documentation.wml 142) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#NeatLinks">Neat Links</a></h2>

documentation.html   143) <ul>

en/documentation.wml 144) <li>The <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter">Tor
en/documentation.wml 145) wiki</a> provides a plethora of helpful contributions from Tor
en/documentation.wml 146) users. Check it out!</li>
en/documentation.wml 147) <li>The <a href="http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/">hidden wiki</a> is a
en/documentation.wml 148) portal for all things about hidden services.</li>

documentation.html   149) <li><a

en/documentation.wml 150) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SupportPrograms">A
en/documentation.wml 151) list of supporting programs you might want to use in association with
en/documentation.wml 152) Tor</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml 153) <li><a href="http://www.noreply.org/tor-running-routers/">Weasel's graph
en/documentation.wml 154) of the number of Tor servers over time</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml 155) <li><a href="http://check.torproject.org/">The
en/documentation.wml 156) Tor detector</a> or <a href="http://torcheck.xenobite.eu/">the other
en/documentation.wml 157) Tor detector</a> try to guess if you're using Tor or not.</li>

en/documentation.wml 158) <li>Check out Geoff Goodell's
en/documentation.wml 159) <a href="http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.py">Tor Network

en/documentation.wml 160) Status</a> page, the
en/documentation.wml 161) <a href="http://torstatus.kgprog.com/">Tor Status</a> page, the other

en/documentation.wml 162) <a href="http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/">Tor Status</a> page, or

en/documentation.wml 163) Xenobite's <a href="https://torstat.xenobite.eu/">Tor node status</a> page.
en/documentation.wml 164) Remember that these lists may not be as accurate as what your Tor

en/documentation.wml 165) client uses, because your client fetches all the authoritative directories
en/documentation.wml 166) and combines them locally.</li>

en/documentation.wml 167) <li>Read <a
en/documentation.wml 168) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#Anonymous_20communication">these
en/documentation.wml 169) papers</a> (especially the ones in boxes) to get up to speed on the field
en/documentation.wml 170) of anonymous communication systems.</li>

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en/documentation.wml 173) <a id="Developers"></a>

en/documentation.wml 174) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Developers">For Developers</a></h2>

en/documentation.wml 175)   Browse the Tor <b>source repository</b>: (which may not necessarily work or even compile)

en/documentation.wml 176)   <ul>

en/documentation.wml 177)     <li><a href="<svnsandbox>">Regularly updated SVN sandbox</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 178)     <li><a href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/trunk">Browse the repository's source tree directly</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 179)     <li><a href="http://cvs.seul.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/tor/?root=Tor">ViewCVS</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 180)     <li>anonymous <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</a> access:
en/documentation.wml 181)       <ul>
en/documentation.wml 182)         <li>Make a new empty directory and cd into it.</li>

en/documentation.wml 183)         <li><kbd>svn checkout https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/trunk tor</kbd></li>
en/documentation.wml 184)         <li><kbd>svn checkout https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/website/trunk website</kbd></li>

en/documentation.wml 185)         <li>To check out the maintenance branch, use<br /><kbd>svn checkout https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/branches/tor-0_1_2-patches</kbd></li>

en/documentation.wml 186)       </ul><br>
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