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Failed to connect to Tor network?
It is repeatedly warning you about the time being wrong. A synchronized clock is extremely important to make a connection to anything even if you've been able to download all of the consensus ...
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Security of Tor bridges and Captcha
Any captcha system can be broken by paying people.
The captcha has been attacked in the past by a nationstate adversary.
The captcha isn't critical to the security of Tor, it does present problems ...
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Failed to connect to Tor network?
The first warning in the logs is this:
11/6/2015 7:05:53 AM.400 [WARN] Our clock is 1 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2015-11-08 10:00:...
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Get Tor bridges via email
I always use this feature to get new bridges but the address is different. I send "get bridges" to bridges@torproject.org. Actually I sent one to be sure about my answer (:D). It is working perfectly.
...
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problem with obfs4proxy and apparmor (solved)
In your torrc there is the line
ClientTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy --managed
Furthermoer the log file states:
Jun 08 21:33:05.000 [warn] Could not launch managed proxy ...
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find needed details of my own private obfs4 Tor bridge
From the obfs4proxy README:
The autogenerated obfs4 bridge parameters are placed in
DataDir/pt_state/obfs4_state.json. To ease deployment, the client side
bridge line is written to DataDir/...
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Does using Email to send bridges and pluggable transport bridges hinder anonymity?
This is rather a non issue, I think. People typically use bridges when their Internet uplink (ISP, university, employer, etc.) blocks access to known entry guards. This may be part of national policy, ...
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Anyway to run a meek bridge on a php hosting?
You can rewrite meek in php.
But it's too complicated.
There is a simple way to run a relay, just function like a meek server.
Here are code:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek....
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Why Do I Get More Than One Bridge?
Basically convenience and/or choice.
Example: You've been using a particular bridge for a while - the first bridge of the three - but your ISP has now started to block it.
You can try the second ...
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How does Tor client build circuits when using a bridge?
Yes, they are taken from the bridge.
Every bridge has the latest directory information cached (just like any directory mirror), and Tor clients fetch them directly and build circuits with the bridge ...
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Failed to connect to Tor network?
This line if very descriptive:
27-05-2015 10:55:01.356 [WARN] Our clock is 17 hours, 4 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2015-05-28 03:00:00 UTC). Tor ...
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In what ways can private relays be used?
By definition bridge relays are Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory. So if you set:
BridgeRelay 1
PublishServerDescriptor 0
this will cause your relay to not publish anywhere. ...
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Tor 4.5.3 - obfs4 bridges can't connect to network
Obfs3 and Obfs4 have a goal of obscuring traffic so that it looks like arbitrary random data. Some environments have created policies such that if the protocol identified via deep packet inspection is ...
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Converting an existing Tor relay into a bridge, does it make sense?
You are correct. Your IP address is tainted and not suitable to host a bridge.
Even if it is not blocked, it is still unsafe to connect to your IP for people who need bridges.
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tor relay and bridge on one server with two IP addresses
You'd need to run two Tor instances, one for the published relay and the other for the bridge.
The important part will be in specifying the correct IP address to bind to and listen on for the ...
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Tails 3.0 blocks connection to ANY obfs4 bridge
Make sure your time zone and time settings are correct, if your system clock time is off, obfs4 will fail to connect.
Tails automatically synchronize time upon start, but sometimes the time ...
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How to configure IPv6-enabled bridge?
There are no IPv6-specific stuff in torrc, but make sure to check all theese points :
You're running a system with IPv6 functionality enabled
You have compiled all the pre-requisites of Tor and the ...
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What is the relationship between guard nodes and bridges?
Bridge, is designed to act as entry node (guard). There is no difference as far as number of hops with or without bridges when you connect to a given server. If there were three hops required to ...
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Tor and download speed
What I think was happening was that Tor prevented my IP from being tracked by my ISP and managed to limit my download speed.
Generally Tor nodes are public, so it would be a matter of time before an ...
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How to add obfs3 bridges in Tor browser?
Fingerprint is not necessary here. Just type obfs3 ip:port and it will work.
The "bridge" will be added automatically for each bridge and you might just keep it as it is.
When the format isn't ...
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Trying to set up a bridge, no luck!
The reason that Tor isn't working is very simple. When you added the bridge configuration lines, there were duplicate lines that already existed in your relay configuration lines. Mainly, it is ORPort ...
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How do ISPs filter out Tor traffic when using a Tor Relay
An attacker has several methods to find out that you're using Tor.
If you use plain Tor without bridges or other circumvention technology than the IP addresses are known to the world. An attacker ...
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Use of tor bridges
It doesn't matter whether you use a bridge or not. You're experiencing a coincidence, not some actual relation between using bridges or not.
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Does using Email to send bridges and pluggable transport bridges hinder anonymity?
How about bitmessage?
https://bitmessage.org
If Tor gives a bitmessage address to request bridges like how it is done in email.
Bitmessage is said to be encrypted P2P messaging protocol but it is ...
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Does eduroam block tor?
The problem is likely caused by the institution you are connecting to, and not eduroam.
I have never used eduroam (nor heard of it before this post), but after viewing their documentation it appears ...
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How to access "Configure" page to set up bridge relay
If a site is banning 'you' (they actually ban all Tor exit nodes) then using bridges will not help you.
Bridges are an alternative way to enter the Tor network, which can be useful if your ISP ...
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Stuck at "Establishing an encrypted directory connection"
It seems that you may be a victim of TLS/HTTPS MitM-attack, try to use Meek and Obfs3/4 pluggable transports. If it won't work either - please post your Tor log here, so I'll be able to help you ...
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Bridges - How to prevent a big adversary to learn all bridges
It works, and exactly like this! To learn published bridges you need :
A working Perl + some modules(email-related)
A working list of emails OR a script to create ones
A...Tor client(!!!) for making ...
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