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Tor is a network of servers operated by volunteers. It allows users of these servers to improve their privacy and security while surfing on the Internet. You and your friends are able to access to your FreedomBox via Tor network without revealing its IP address. Activating Tor application on your FreedomBox, you will be able to offer remote services (chat, wiki, file sharing, etc...) without showing your location. This application will give you a better protection than a public web server because you will be less exposed to intrusive people on the web.

Tor Browser is the recommended way to browse the web using Tor. You can download the Tor Browser from and follow the instructions on that site to install and run it.

Tor Hidden Service provides a way to access your FreedomBox, even if it's behind a router, firewall, or carrier-grade NAT (i.e., your Internet Service Provider does not provide a public IPv4 address for your router). To enable Tor Hidden Service, first navigate to the Anonymity Network (Tor) page. (If you don't see it, click on the FreedomBox logo at the top-left of the page, to go to the main Apps page.) On the Anonymity Network (Tor) page, under Configuration, check "Enable Tor Hidden Service", then press the Update setup button. Tor will be reconfigured and restarted. After a while, the page will refresh and under Status, you will see a table listing the Hidden Service .onion address. Copy the entire address (ending in .onion) and paste it into the Tor Browser's address field, and you should be able to access your FreedomBox. (You may see a certificate warning because FreedomBox has a self-signed certificate.) Tor Browser - Plinth Currently only HTTP (port 80), HTTPS (port 443), and SSH (port 22) are accessible through the Tor Hidden Service configured on the FreedomBox.

The following apps can be accessed over Tor. Note that this list is not exhaustive. Calendar and Addressbook (Radicale) File Synchronization (Syncthing) Web Search (Searx) Wiki (MediaWiki) Wiki and Blog (Ikiwiki)

When Tor is installed, it is configured by default to run as a bridge relay. The relay or bridge option can be disabled through the Tor configuration page in Plinth. At the bottom of the Tor page in Plinth, there is a list of ports used by the Tor relay. If your FreedomBox is behind a router, you will need to configure port forwarding on your router so that these ports can be reached from the public Internet. The requirements to run a relay are listed in the Tor Relay Guide. In short, it is recommended that a relay has at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload and download bandwidth available for Tor. More is better. required that a Tor relay be allowed to use a minimum of 100 GByte of outbound and of incoming traffic per month. recommended that a <40 Mbit/s non-exit relay should have at least 512 MB of RAM available; A relay faster than 40 Mbit/s should have at least 1 GB of RAM.

FreedomBox provides a Tor SOCKS port that other applications can connect to, in order to route their traffic over the Tor network. This port is accessible on any interfaces configured in the internal firewall zone. To configure the application, set SOCKS Host to the internal network connection's IP address, and set the SOCKS Port to 9050.

If your ISP is trying to block Tor traffic, you can use tor bridge relays to connect to the tor network. 1. Get the bridge configuration from the Tor BridgeDB Tor BridgeDB 2. Add the lines to your FreedomBox Tor configuration as show below. Tor Configuration Page Back to Features introduction or manual pages. InformationSupportContributeReportsPromoteOverview Hardware Live Help Where To Start Translate Calls Talks Features Vision Q&A Design To Do Releases Press Download Manual Code Contributors Blog FreedomBox for Communities HELP & DISCUSSIONS: Discussion Forum - Mailing List - #freedombox irc.debian.org | CONTACT Foundation | JOIN Project Next call: Saturday, October 12th at 14:00 UTC Latest news: Announcing Pioneer FreedomBox Kits - 2019-03-26 This page is copyright its contributors and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. CategoryFreedomBox