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en/documentation.wml   9) <a id="RunningTor"></a>
en/documentation.wml  10) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#RunningTor">Running Tor</a></h2>
en/documentation.wml  11) <ul>

en/documentation.wml  12) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-windows>">Installing Tor

en/documentation.wml  13) on Win32</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  14) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-osx>">Installing Tor on

en/documentation.wml  15) Mac OS X</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  16) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-unix>">Installing Tor on

en/documentation.wml  17) Linux/BSD/Unix</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  18) <li><a href="<page torbutton/index>">Installing
en/documentation.wml  19) Torbutton for Tor</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  20) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-doc-relay>">Configuring a
en/documentation.wml  21) Tor relay</a></li>

en/documentation.wml  22) <li><a href="<page docs/tor-hidden-service>">Configuring

en/documentation.wml  23) a Tor hidden service</a></li>
en/documentation.wml  24) </ul>

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en/documentation.wml  26) <a id="Support"></a>

en/documentation.wml  27) <a id="UpToSpeed"></a>
en/documentation.wml  28) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#UpToSpeed">Getting up to speed on Tor's past,
en/documentation.wml  29) present, and future</a></h2>
en/documentation.wml  30) 
en/documentation.wml  31) <ol>
en/documentation.wml  32) <li>
en/documentation.wml  33) First, read the <a href="<page overview>">overview page</a> to get a
en/documentation.wml  34) basic idea of how Tor works, what it's for, and who uses it.
en/documentation.wml  35) </li>
en/documentation.wml  36) 
en/documentation.wml  37) <li>
en/documentation.wml  38) <a href="<page download>">Install the Tor bundle</a> and try it out.
en/documentation.wml  39) Make sure you've got Firefox installed first, and be sure to read the
en/documentation.wml  40) <a href="<page download>#Warning">list of warnings</a> about ways you
en/documentation.wml  41) can screw up your anonymity.
en/documentation.wml  42) </li>
en/documentation.wml  43) 
en/documentation.wml  44) <li>

en/documentation.wml  45) Our <a href="<wiki>TorFAQ">FAQ</a>

en/documentation.wml  46) covers all sorts of topics, including questions about setting up a client
en/documentation.wml  47) or relay, concerns about anonymity attacks, why we didn't build Tor in

en/documentation.wml  48) other ways, etc.

en/documentation.wml  49) There's a separate <a href="<page faq-abuse>">Abuse FAQ</a> to answer
en/documentation.wml  50) common questions from or for relay operators.
en/documentation.wml  51) The <a href="<page eff/tor-legal-faq>">Tor Legal FAQ</a> is written by
en/documentation.wml  52) EFF lawyers, and aims to give you an overview of some of the legal issues
en/documentation.wml  53) that arise from the Tor project in the US.
en/documentation.wml  54) </li>
en/documentation.wml  55) 
en/documentation.wml  56) <li>The <a href="<page tor-manual>">manual</a>
en/documentation.wml  57) lists all the possible entries you can put in your <a

en/documentation.wml  58) href="<wiki>TorFAQ#Imsupposedtoeditmytorrc.Whatdoesthatmean">torrc

en/documentation.wml  59) file</a>. We also provide a <a href="<page tor-manual-dev>">manual for
en/documentation.wml  60) the development version of Tor</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml  61) 
en/documentation.wml  62) <li>If you have questions, we have an IRC channel (for users, relay
en/documentation.wml  63) operators, and developers)
en/documentation.wml  64) at <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net/tor">#tor on irc.oftc.net</a>. If
en/documentation.wml  65) you have a bug, especially a crash bug, read <a

en/documentation.wml  66) href="<wiki>TorFAQ#MyTorkeepscrashing.">how

en/documentation.wml  67) to report a Tor bug</a> first and then tell us as much information
en/documentation.wml  68) about it as you can in

en/documentation.wml  69) <a href="https://bugs.torproject.org/">our bugtracker</a>.

en/documentation.wml  70) (If your bug is

en/documentation.wml  71) with Polipo, your browser, or some other application, please don't put

en/documentation.wml  72) it in our bugtracker.) The
en/documentation.wml  73) <a href="#MailingLists">or-talk mailing list</a> can also be useful.

en/documentation.wml  74) </li>
en/documentation.wml  75) 
en/documentation.wml  76) <li>

en/documentation.wml  77) We try to keep <a href="<blog>">our blog</a> updated every week with the latest news.

en/documentation.wml  78) </li>
en/documentation.wml  79) 

en/documentation.wml  80) <li>
en/documentation.wml  81) Download and watch Roger's overview talk from What The Hack (<a

en/documentation.wml  82) href="http://media.torproject.org/video/wth-anonymous-communication-58.mp4">video</a>,

en/documentation.wml  83) <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/wth1.pdf">slides</a>, <a
en/documentation.wml  84) href="http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Anonymous_communication_for_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense...and_you">abstract</a>).
en/documentation.wml  85) This talk was given in July 2005, back when we were funded by EFF and back
en/documentation.wml  86) when the network was quite small, but it still provides good background
en/documentation.wml  87) on how Tor works and what it's for.
en/documentation.wml  88) </li>
en/documentation.wml  89) 

en/documentation.wml  90) <li>
en/documentation.wml  91) Look through our <a href="#DesignDoc">Design
en/documentation.wml  92) Documents</a>. Notice that we have RFC-style specs to tell you exactly
en/documentation.wml  93) how Tor is built.
en/documentation.wml  94) </li>
en/documentation.wml  95) 
en/documentation.wml  96) <li>
en/documentation.wml  97) There's a skeletal <a

en/documentation.wml  98) href="/press/presskit/2008-12-19-roadmap-full.pdf">list

en/documentation.wml  99) of items we'd like to tackle in the future</a>. Alas, many of those
en/documentation.wml 100) items need to be fleshed out more before they'll make sense to people
en/documentation.wml 101) who aren't Tor developers, but you can still get a general sense of
en/documentation.wml 102) what issues need to be resolved next.

en/documentation.wml 103) </li>
en/documentation.wml 104) 
en/documentation.wml 105) <li>

en/documentation.wml 106) Download and watch Nick's "Technical changes since 2004" talk from
en/documentation.wml 107) Defcon in July 2007 (<a
en/documentation.wml 108) href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/Defcon15-Mathewson-Technical_Changes_since_you_Last_Heard_about_Tor.mp4">video</a>, <a
en/documentation.wml 109) href="http://freehaven.net/~nickm/slides/Defcon07/TorChanges.pdf">slides</a>),
en/documentation.wml 110) Roger's "blocking-resistance

en/documentation.wml 111) and circumvention" talk from 23C3 in December 2006 (<a

en/documentation.wml 112) href="http://media.torproject.org/video/23C3-1444-en-tor_and_china.m4v">video</a>,

en/documentation.wml 113) <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/slides-23c3.pdf">slides</a>,
en/documentation.wml 114) <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events/1444.en.html">abstract</a>,

en/documentation.wml 115) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html">design paper</a>),

en/documentation.wml 116) and Roger's "Current events in 2007" talk from 24C3 in December

en/documentation.wml 117) 2007 (<a href="http://media.torproject.org/video/24c3-2325-en-current_events_in_tor_development.mp4">video</a>,
en/documentation.wml 118) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/presentations/slides-24c3.pdf">slides</a>,

en/documentation.wml 119) <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2325.en.html">abstract</a>).
en/documentation.wml 120) We also have the What The Hack tutorial on hidden services (<a

en/documentation.wml 121) href="http://media.torproject.org/video/wth_tor_hidden_services.mp4">video</a>,

en/documentation.wml 122) <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/wth3.pdf">slides</a>).
en/documentation.wml 123) </li>
en/documentation.wml 124) 

en/documentation.wml 125) <li>

en/documentation.wml 126) See Mike's "Securing the Tor network" talk from Defcon in July 2007

en/documentation.wml 127) (<a
en/documentation.wml 128) href="http://media.torproject.org/video/Defcon15-Mike_Perry-Securing_the_Tor_Network.mp4">video</a>,

en/documentation.wml 129)  <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/SecuringTheTorNetwork.pdf">slides</a>).

en/documentation.wml 130) It describes common ways to attack networks like Tor and how we try
en/documentation.wml 131) to defend against them, and it introduces the <a

en/documentation.wml 132) href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/README">Torflow</a>

en/documentation.wml 133) script collection.

en/documentation.wml 134) </li>
en/documentation.wml 135) 

en/documentation.wml 136) <li>
en/documentation.wml 137) Learn about the <a

en/documentation.wml 138) href="<gitblob>doc/spec/proposals/001-process.txt">Tor

en/documentation.wml 139) proposal process for changing our design</a>, and look over the <a

en/documentation.wml 140) href="<gittree>doc/spec/proposals">existing proposals</a>.

en/documentation.wml 141) </li>
en/documentation.wml 142) 
en/documentation.wml 143) <li>

en/documentation.wml 144) Our <a href="<wiki>wiki/projects">project list</a> starts with a

en/documentation.wml 145) timeline for external promises &mdash; things <a href="<page sponsors>">our
en/documentation.wml 146) sponsors</a> have paid to see done. It also lists many other tasks
en/documentation.wml 147) and topics we'd like to tackle next.
en/documentation.wml 148) </li>
en/documentation.wml 149) 

en/documentation.wml 150) <li>
en/documentation.wml 151) Through funding from the National Science Foundation, we maintain
en/documentation.wml 152) analysis, statistics, and provide the raw data of the Tor network from
en/documentation.wml 153) 2004 to today at <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/">The Tor Metrics</a>
en/documentation.wml 154) site.
en/documentation.wml 155) </li>
en/documentation.wml 156) 

en/documentation.wml 157) <li>
en/documentation.wml 158) Once you're up to speed, things will continue to change surprisingly fast.
en/documentation.wml 159) The <a href="#MailingLists">or-dev mailing list</a> is where the complex

en/documentation.wml 160) discussion happens, and the #tor IRC channel

en/documentation.wml 161) is where the less complex discussion happens.
en/documentation.wml 162) </li>
en/documentation.wml 163) 
en/documentation.wml 164) </ol>
en/documentation.wml 165) 

en/documentation.wml 166) <a id="MailingLists"></a>
en/documentation.wml 167) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#MailingLists">Mailing List Information</a></h2>
en/documentation.wml 168) <ul>
en/documentation.wml 169) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/">or-announce
en/documentation.wml 170) mailing list</a> is a low volume list for announcements of new releases
en/documentation.wml 171) and critical security updates. Everybody should be on this list.
en/documentation.wml 172) There is also an
en/documentation.wml 173) <a href="http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.announce">RSS
en/documentation.wml 174) feed</a> of or-announce at <a href="http://gmane.org">gmane.org</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml 175) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/">or-talk list</a>
en/documentation.wml 176) is where a lot of discussion happens, and is where we send notifications
en/documentation.wml 177) of prerelease versions and release candidates.</li>

en/documentation.wml 178) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/tor/relays/">tor-relays list</a>
en/documentation.wml 179) is where discussions about running, configuring, and handling your tor
en/documentation.wml 180) relay happen.  If you currently run a relay, or are thinking about doing
en/documentation.wml 181) so, this is the list for you.</li>

en/documentation.wml 182) <li>The <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/">or-dev list</a>
en/documentation.wml 183) is for posting by developers only, and is very low traffic.</li>

en/documentation.wml 184) <li>A list for <a href="http://archives.seul.org/tor/mirrors/">mirror
en/documentation.wml 185) operators</a> for new website mirrors, and supporting <a href="<page
en/documentation.wml 186) mirrors>">current website mirrors</a>.</li>
en/documentation.wml 187) <li>A list for <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/">svn and git
en/documentation.wml 188) commits</a> may be interesting for developers.</li>

en/documentation.wml 189) <li>An automated list for <a href="http://archives.seul.org/tor/bugs/">bug
en/documentation.wml 190) reports from trac</a> may be interesting for users and developers.</li>

en/documentation.wml 191) </ul>
en/documentation.wml 192) 

documentation.html   193) <a id="DesignDoc"></a>

documentation.html   194) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#DesignDoc">Design Documents</a></h2>

documentation.html   195) <ul>

en/documentation.wml 196) <li>The <b>design document</b> (published at Usenix Security 2004)
en/documentation.wml 197) gives our justifications and security analysis for the Tor design:

en/documentation.wml 198) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf">PDF</a> and
en/documentation.wml 199) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.html">HTML</a>

en/documentation.wml 200) versions available.</li>
en/documentation.wml 201) <li>Our follow-up paper on <b>challenges in low-latency anonymity</b>

documentation.html   202) (still in draft form) details more recent experiences and directions:

en/documentation.wml 203) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/challenges.pdf">PDF

en/documentation.wml 204) draft</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml 205) <li>Our paper at WEIS 2006 &mdash; <b>Anonymity Loves Company:
en/documentation.wml 206) Usability and the Network Effect</b> &mdash; explains why usability in
en/documentation.wml 207) anonymity systems matters for their security: <a
en/documentation.wml 208) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/usability:weis2006.pdf">PDF</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml 209) <li>Our preliminary design to make it harder for large firewalls to
en/documentation.wml 210) prevent access to the Tor network is described in
en/documentation.wml 211) <b>design of a blocking-resistant anonymity system</b>:

en/documentation.wml 212) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.pdf">PDF draft</a> and
en/documentation.wml 213) <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html">HTML draft</a>.

en/documentation.wml 214) Want to <a href="<page volunteer>#Coding">help us build it</a>?</li>

en/documentation.wml 215) <li>The <b>specifications</b> aim to give
en/documentation.wml 216) developers enough information to build a compatible version of Tor:

documentation.html   217) <ul>

en/documentation.wml 218) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/tor-spec.txt">Main Tor specification</a></li>
en/documentation.wml 219) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/dir-spec.txt">Tor

en/documentation.wml 220) version 3 directory server specification</a> (and older <a

en/documentation.wml 221) href="<gitblob>doc/spec/dir-spec-v1.txt">version 1</a> and <a
en/documentation.wml 222) href="<gitblob>doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt">version 2</a> directory

en/documentation.wml 223) specifications)</li>

en/documentation.wml 224) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/control-spec.txt">Tor control protocol

en/documentation.wml 225) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 226) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/rend-spec.txt">Tor rendezvous

en/documentation.wml 227) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 228) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/path-spec.txt">Tor path selection

en/documentation.wml 229) specification</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 230) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/address-spec.txt">Special hostnames in

en/documentation.wml 231) Tor</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 232) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/socks-extensions.txt">Tor's SOCKS support

en/documentation.wml 233) and extensions</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 234) <li><a href="<gitblob>doc/spec/version-spec.txt">How Tor version numbers

en/documentation.wml 235) work</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 236) <li><a href="<gittree>doc/spec/proposals">In-progress drafts of

en/documentation.wml 237) new specifications and proposed changes</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 238) </ul></li>

en/documentation.wml 239) 

en/documentation.wml 240) </ul>

documentation.html   241) 

en/documentation.wml 242) <a id="NeatLinks"></a>
en/documentation.wml 243) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#NeatLinks">Neat Links</a></h2>

documentation.html   244) <ul>

en/documentation.wml 245) <li>The <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor">Tor

en/documentation.wml 246) wiki</a> provides a plethora of helpful contributions from Tor
en/documentation.wml 247) users. Check it out!</li>

documentation.html   248) <li><a

en/documentation.wml 249) href="<wiki>SupportPrograms">A

en/documentation.wml 250) list of supporting programs you might want to use in association with
en/documentation.wml 251) Tor</a>.</li>

en/documentation.wml 252) <li><a href="https://check.torproject.org/">The

en/documentation.wml 253) Tor detector</a> or <a href="http://torcheck.xenobite.eu/">the other
en/documentation.wml 254) Tor detector</a> try to guess if you're using Tor or not.</li>

en/documentation.wml 255) <li>Check out one of the Tor status pages, such as <a
en/documentation.wml 256) href="http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/">blutmagie's</a>, or <a
en/documentation.wml 257) href="http://trunk.torstatus.kgprog.com/index.php">kgprog's</a>, or

en/documentation.wml 258) Xenobite's <a href="https://torstat.xenobite.eu/">Tor node status</a> page.
en/documentation.wml 259) Remember that these lists may not be as accurate as what your Tor

en/documentation.wml 260) client uses, because your client fetches its own directory information and
en/documentation.wml 261) examines it locally.</li>

en/documentation.wml 262) <li>Read <a
en/documentation.wml 263) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#Anonymous_20communication">these
en/documentation.wml 264) papers</a> (especially the ones in boxes) to get up to speed on the field
en/documentation.wml 265) of anonymous communication systems.</li>

documentation.html   266) </ul>

documentation.html   267) 

en/documentation.wml 268) <a id="Developers"></a>

en/documentation.wml 269) <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Developers">For Developers</a></h2>

en/documentation.wml 270)   Browse the Tor <b>source repository</b>:

en/documentation.wml 271)   <ul>

en/documentation.wml 272)     <li><a href="<gitrepo>">Browse the repository's source tree directly</a></li>

en/documentation.wml 273)     <li>Git and SVN access:

en/documentation.wml 274)       <ul>

en/documentation.wml 275)         <li><kbd>git clone git://git.torproject.org/git/tor</kbd></li>

en/documentation.wml 276)         <li>The development branch is <kbd>master</kbd>.  The active maintenance branches are <kbd>maint-0.2.0</kbd> and <kbd>maint-0.2.1</kbd>.</li>

en/documentation.wml 277)         <li><kbd>svn checkout https://svn.torproject.org/svn/website/trunk website</kbd></li>

en/documentation.wml 278)       </ul>
en/documentation.wml 279)     </li>

en/documentation.wml 280)     <li><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org//githax.git?a=blob;f=doc/Howto.txt;hb=HEAD">Basic instructions for using Git to contribute to Tor software.</a></li>

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