Re: [tor-talk] New Tool Keeps Censors in the Dark

Using Tor via Telex (added 7/20/11)

Normally, the Telex station is able to see the destination of your proxied requests (e.g., the “Blocked.com” that you request via Telex). However, it is possible to use Tor, an anonymity-providing proxy, on top of Telex. This way, the Telex station will only be able to observe that you are using Tor, not your ultimate destination.
To use Telex as an entry to Tor, first make sure you've downloaded the Telex client below. You'll also need our Tor public key file, which instructs the Telex station that you want to be connected to our Tor Bridge instead of our HTTP proxy. To use this public key, run the Telex client with the additional options shown in bold:

telex-client -k tor.pubkey -p 4444 notblocked.telex.cc

Next, download the Tor Browser Bundle client (if you don't already have the most recent version), and edit your torrc file to add the following three lines:

Bridge 127.0.0.1:4444 F580401C7A5EEDD54F2927A1C161E9642D1ADCCC
UpdateBridgesFromAuthority 0
UseBridges 1

At this point, launch the tor_browser_bundle, and a browser window should open using Tor over Telex. You can use this page to verify that you are connecting through Tor.

i thing this is a good idea instead to use bridges to connect to tor....

Is it like that or what?????

> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:42:36 -0700
> From: mogulguy@xxxxxxxxx
> To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New Tool Keeps Censors in the Dark - mentions Tor.
>
> --- On Fri, 8/5/11, bertagaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <bertagaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > >>>> http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38207/?p1=A1
> > > >>>It's worth reading the paper:
>
> I think that simply getting high profile sites to run to r
> nodes would be more likely and less invasive to the internet
> as a whole. If google were to simply run a bunch of
> bridges, or even known tor entry nodes, that would likely
> be more reliable and be less pie in the sky.
>
> If you compare the advocacy it would take to get enough
> ISPs to implement this scheme versus the advocacy to get
> a few high profile (can't live without them) sites to run
> tor nodes, I suspect the latter would be much easier.
>
> -Martin
>
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