[privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-2884957 ] p2p

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Support Requests item #2884957, was opened at 2009-10-23 19:54
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>Category: configuration
Group: None
>Status: Pending
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Mike (mrmikesname)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: p2p

Initial Comment:
Just downloaded Privoxy from the website and I'm interested in setting it up for enhanced p2p privacy.  I have absolutely no idea where to start.  I don't have time to search through the forums right now, but I will later in the week.  I was hoping that someone could give me a quick start to setting it up for p2p use with bittorrent.  I'm going to download utorrent here soon too.

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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2009-10-24 09:40

Message:
p2p users usually want to hide their real IP address and Privoxy doesn't do
that.

You can chain Privoxy with Tor to let Tor do the IP address hiding, but
while you can then configure your BitTorrent client to use Privoxy as HTTP
proxy, you'd still have to additionally configure it to useTor as socks
proxy if you also want to cover the BitTorrent connections.

Chaining Privoxy with Tor is described in the FAQ:
http://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html#TOR

Note that at least some Tor server operators consider tunneling BitTorrent
traffic through their servers misuse.


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