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Unable to connect in China

I'm from the UK, but I work as an English teacher in China. Usually I get around the Chinese firewall by using a VPN, but lately the government has been stepping up their efforts to block these, so I downloaded Red Browser for my iPhone as an…
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New Tor HIdden service specification

i am doing some background research for my PhD on anonymity networks i read that there is going to be some pretty major changes to hidden services but can not find an accurate up to date list of all the changes that are hopefully going to be…
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How do clients know if a descriptor is new/changed/or disappeared from the Tor network?

I noticed a paragraph in dir-spec.txt as follow: To address these, we extended the directory protocol so that authorities now published signed "network status" documents. Each network status listed, for every router in the network: a hash of …
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Atlas is still showing old relays

i was playing around with running a tor relay on several servers. So now that im finished i would like to get rid of the old relays wich still show up in atlas. One of the relays is down for about 4 days. Is there a general downtime timeout and they…
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Tor browser behaviour in Windows versus Linux

If I start the Windows Tor browser bundle using Start Tor Browser.exe and subsequently close the browser, Vidalia shuts down Tor and then exits. In Linux, if I start the Tor browser bundle using the start-Tor-browser script, and then shutdown the…
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Better to run one relay or two, given equal total bandwidth?

For example, would it be more helpful to the network to setup one relay that had 4TB of bandwidth, or two relays that each had 2TB? Does the answer change depending on the amount of bandwidth each relay would have?
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Is it possible to choose unique different exit-nodes for Tor?

I want to run 2 (or more) tor instances on the same machine each one on different port,but i want to make sure that those 2 instance will never have the same exit node or ip at the same time i am thinking of using ExitNodes node,node,… in torrc…
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Tor for Chromebook

I am thinking of getting a Chromebook in the not so distant future. However, I want to be able to use Tor on it. However, since, at least that is my perception, everything goes through Google, will Tor then be available on a Chromebook?
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How to use Chinese IP only on Tor Browser?

Question as captioned. I know how to set the exit node to USA by setting the exit node parameter to "us" and to England by "gb". But when I set that parameter to "cn", it seems fail to use a Chinese IP. Sometimes I even can't open Tor Browser…
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What does the heartbeat line in my torrc mean?

I know that the Tor logs are in /var/log/tor. I have a question as to what one of the lines in the log means though. I see something along these lines: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 4 days 18:00 hours, with 440 circuits open. I've sent 128.72 GB and…
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Accessing Tor hidden services over a single hop circuit

I will presage the expected warnings before posting my question: I fully understand the security risks involved using single hops, however, with regards to my goals I have zero need for anonymity. I am interested in archiving the contents of several…
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New Identity Per Window

I've been tinkering with Tor for a while, and can't figure out a way to do this. I would like for each window to have its own identity, to allow me to be logged into multiple accounts on a website. Unfortunately, Tor has nothing that allows you to…
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Compiled Tor binary doesn't match with Tor official downloaded package

When i compile source code to get a working safe Tor package, what i produced have different hash from official Tor binary in download section... is this a compiler problem or that's normal compilers add random data and we can't check Tor official…
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Tor hidden service bandwith question

I have a newbie question here. When you setup a Tor hidden service do you yourself use up bandwidth on your network or does is the traffic attributed to the relay?
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How to run multiple Tor browsers simultaneously and independently with different circuits and exit IP addresses using TBB version 4.0.3?

I have reserched a lot on the subject of how to run multiple Tor Browsers simultaneously, and independently, but could not find anything so far that make that possible. How may I arrange the Tor Browser set-up so that I may use multiple instances of…
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