Questions

[Ringo Kamens]

2. If you want to control countries, look into different tor
controllers. Your best bet is to route tor through some open socks 4/5
proxies around the web. Download a proxy checker, some proxy lists,
and a proxy chainer. I've heard charon and sockschain are good for
windows, but I can't personally vouch for them.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 5/7/07, JT <toruser at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the lasted version of Tor.
>
> 1) What are the implications of accessing an SSL Server via Tor?
>
> My understanding is that when encrypted html comes out of the Tunnel on
> the client side it goes through privoxy and then into the browser.
> Correct? Therefore privoxy can not filter anything.
> If all scripting is turned off, no plugins installed and everything set
> up as recommended then does this pose a security
> problem? How does privoxy help anyways if scripting is turned off by
> default(i.e noscript).
>
> 2) Why are there so many circuits all made up of nodes from the same
> country? All from the USA or all from Germany, etc.
> This is no good! At least one should be from a different jurisdiction.
> Even if all are from the EU it is no good.
> How difficult would it be to only allow clients to connect to IPs(first
> node in the path) that are not from the same country as the client?
> Would that be very difficult to do? I can imagine that this would
> increase security a lot.
>
> 3) There is a problem on Windows XP in the current verion(latest). If
> Tor is stopped(not shut down) from Vidalia
> it can not be restarted. There is an error that comes up.
>
> --
>   JT
>   toruser at fastmail.fm
>
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>
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