[tor-talk] how to install torrent tor

[Justin Aplin]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Curious Kid wrote:

> I looks to me like Zaher F. mistakenly believes that this is a  
> bundle created to
> download torrents through Tor.
>
> I hope those mirrors you posted don't get blocked...

It was my impression that his original question was a badly-worded  
variation on "Firefox works over Tor, now how do I get torrents to  
work over Tor?". The answer depends on which client you're using. To  
date, I haven't seen a Bittorrent client specifically designed with  
Tor in mind, but then, since I find wasting huge amounts of exit  
bandwidth in this way a little distasteful, I haven't exactly been  
looking. uTorrent, however, is fairly easy to configure properly, so  
I'll use it as an example.

In the "Connection" section of uTorrent's preferences, set the proxy  
server options to "HTTP", "127.0.0.1", and "8118" respectively to  
bounce traffic through Polipo (Which I'm assuming you installed with  
the Vidalia Bundle). If you don't have Polipo installed, you can set  
the proxy server options to "SOCKS", "127.0.0.1", and "9050"  
respectively to route traffic directly into the Tor client. I'd make  
sure "Resolve hostnames through proxy" is checked, and although I  
cringe at the thought of using so much of the network's bandwidth, I  
suppose "Use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections" is the magic  
checkbox you're looking for. (All this assumes you haven't changed any  
of the default ports).

But really, a simple Google search of "<your client's name> over Tor"  
or similar will yield you much more specific results, with pictures,  
even. The question is so general it's really hard for us to answer it  
here.

~Justin Aplin