Re: [tor-dev] inTORface - a potential GSoC idea

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-03-15 06:08, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know there's not much time to apply, but I figured that it's worth asking 
> anyway. I recently gave Tails a try and I have to admit that I wasn't exactly 
> happy with how it routes the traffic through Tor. I basically wanted a ready-to-
> use airgapped VM and I realized that torsocks doesn't exactly do what I want 
> in all cases.
> 
> Then I had this idea - wouldn't it be nice to add another virtual NIC to your 
> system that routes all the traffic via Tor and attach a VM to this traffic only? 
> It'd emulate TCP/IP (and maybe some UDP to catch DNS requests) so that if the 
> VM sends a SYN, it notes this fact and tries to establish a real connection.
> 
> I'm not sure I could hasten to build a prototype, but I wanted to throw the 
> idea there nonetheless. What do you think about it?

See amongst others:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.janusvm.com/tor_vm/

Next to that there are a couple of other systems out there that do this
('create two VMs: one anonymous with forced connections through Tor; the
other actually running Tor; with the host-VM forcing the connections').

Greets,
 Jeroen

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