Comments on: Part 3: Azureus Anonymity

By: How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN — PaulStamatiou.com

How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN — PaulStamatiou.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:38:06 +0000

[...] things like “anonymous” web browsing through the Janus Privacy Adapter as well as with public Tor nodes. (Side note: Anonymous in quotes because truly anon browsing requires encrypted, signed traffic [...]

By: Anonymize Your Web Traffic with JanusPA - PaulStamatiou.com

Anonymize Your Web Traffic with JanusPA - PaulStamatiou.com — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:12:12 +0000

[...] of you all too familiar with this blog will remember the Tor network from my post that detailed how to setup Tor with the BitTorrent utility Azureus. In a nutshell: Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of [...]

By: noone

noone — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:53:07 +0000

So I’ve implemented all of this, the proxy, two hidden services and all, but when i load up torrents, if I right-click them and go to Advanced > Networks, only the Public (not anonymous) is checked. If I only check Tor here, I get no transfer and a Network error. How do the settings in Right-Click > Advanced > Networks factor into anonymity?

By: Tor & Tor Projects « Bolzano2910’s Weblog

Tor & Tor Projects « Bolzano2910’s Weblog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:22:04 +0000

[...] How to set up Azureus to work with Tor. And here. Or here. Although, IMHO, it is better to run a BitTorrent client through a proxy instead of an anonymizing [...]

By: Anonymous BitTorrent « Bolzano2910’s Weblog

Anonymous BitTorrent « Bolzano2910’s Weblog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:11:29 +0000

[...] here’s an article about how to use Azureus with Tor. The Tor plugin for Azureus is called AnonBT. Bookmark [...]

By: Tor and Tor Projects | FileShareFreak

Tor and Tor Projects | FileShareFreak — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:17:56 +0000

[...] How to set up Azureus to work with Tor. And here. Or here. Although, IMHO, it is better to run a BitTorrent client through a proxy instead of an anonymizing [...]

By: Anonymous BitTorrent | THE source for P2P File Sharing Tips, Tricks and information. | FileShareFreak

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:03:44 +0000

[...] here’s an article about how to use Azureus with Tor. The Tor plugin for Azureus is called [...]

By: midwich

midwich — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:18:35 +0000

Mac Users look here!

Here’s the fix for the torrc hostname/key stumbling block (they don’t appear):

1. First, turn off Tor in the Vidalia panel, and close Vidalia.

2. In Finder, click the ‘Go’ menu item, and then ‘Go to Folder…’

3. In the box that appears, type this:

/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.vidalia

Do NOT forget the dot just before ‘vidalia’ above. This takes you to a hidden folder at the top level of your own user area.

4. Inside the hidden .vidalia folder you will see a torrc file. Yep – your very own, separate to the System-level one talked about in the article above. Open your torrc file (actually empty), and type in something like this:

HiddenServiceDir /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.vidalia/hidden_services
HiddenServicePort 6969 127.0.0.1:10069

5. Create a folder inside .vidalia called ‘hidden_services’, and restart Vidalia/turn on Tor.

6. Presto! Look inside the hidden_services folder, and your hostname and private_key should be there.

Worked for me anyway! I’ve not gone further, but that’s a pretty major hurdle dealt with right there I think. If anyone finds issues later on in the process please post here. I’ll move on tomorrow myself, but I’m no expert so any advice would be great.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:47:30 +0000

Hi Paul, great tutorial. But similar to another entry here, I also got the same problem where I’m getting the error message when I launch azureus â€œsocks proxy localhost:9050 check failed: SOCKS request failure [connection refused/5], proxy connect failedâ€. I tried stopping and restaring tor, commenting and uncommenting the entries in the config files, enabling and disabling the proxy in azureus, all with no avail.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!

By: blue|palm

blue|palm — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:02:28 +0000

Could you please do a tutorial like this for ubuntu?

By: RICH

RICH — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:03:46 +0000

Rugbybubba
i know you probably tried this, i did have the same problam with the hostname and and private_key. what i was doin was following the text word by word, which i really should’nt have even though it is correct up to 99.8%, i had to changed it a bit. what i was not doin, was not looking where i was asking the TORREC code to send the two files, (there directions where off).

Old File Directions:
HiddenServiceDir C:\Program Files\Tor\bttracker
HiddenServicePort 6969 127.0.0.1:10069

In my case New File Directions:

HiddenServiceDir C:\Program Files\Vidalia Bundle\Tor\bttracker
HiddenServicePort 6969 127.0.0.1:10069

this is the code i should of entered into the TORREC file.

Maybe this will help, but the problem i have is that, i have managed to get the hostname file and the tracker address that is inside, have finished the rest of the work off. i still come up with the error message that you see in the post before.

you explained that all logfiles go to the STDERR, does this mean that there is no way to hide your ip? or has someone found out a new way?

o yah thanks Paul Stamatiou for the e-mail, paul know you did this a part 3 a while ago, but do you have any idears on the problem, a bit new to this all.

By: Rugbybubba

Rugbybubba — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:10:43 +0000

I too have followed all the instructions for Mac OS X (Privoxy, Tor and the above) and have restarted the computer, Privoxy and Tor from Vidalia and /Library/…. but cannot get the two files to show up in the /Library/Tor/bttracker (I have re-edited the torrc file multiple times as well, going as far as cutting and pasting from the above). Any help? Could the logging be turned off?
I also cannot find the two lines in the PRIVOXY config file in mac os x version.
logfile privoxy.log
jarfile jar.log
The only thing I did find was
#logfile logfile and #jarfile jarfile
which, as you can see were already commented out.
Looking closer it seems that the logs are showing up in /opt/local/var/log/privoxy (the config file says default is /var/log/privoxy) AND that for logfile
‘# Effect if unset:
#
# No log file is used, all log messages go to the console (STDERR).’
and for jarfile
‘# Effect if unset:
#
# Intercepted cookies are not stored at all.’

Searching the logfile for .onion and hostname did not get me my tracker’s address. Once again, many thanks for any light anyone can shed on my problems (which other Mac users seem to be having too).

By: rich

rich — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:57:59 +0000

Hi Paul, got a bit of a problem i have followed your text word for word, but i am getting an error message when i lunch azureus “sockes proxy localhost:9050 check failed: SOCKS request failure [connection refused/5], proxy connect failed” i have gone back over the work that i did step by step and cannot find anything wrong, could you help please.

thanks rich

By: ROTtor

ROTtor — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:13:30 +0000

well done Paul

By: akk

akk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:32:24 +0000

So if I disabled Distributed DB/DHT but I still have my router port forwarded and set in Azureus, am I exposed as peter says, or is proxying the peer comm enough to stay anonymous?

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:30:00 +0000

How can I verify that this is properly configured?

By: Dummie

Dummie — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:22:15 +0000

Hi. It is not clear for me how to configure the Azureus if I want to Dl some torrents anonimously?

By: soulbender

soulbender — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:47:54 +0000

I’ve done a bit of anylysis inside Azureus, and it seems that the Distributed DB is still reporting my actual IP address (in the log file). For that reason – and as a result of reading the comment by peter ragousis – I’ve disabled the Distributed DB/DHT in Azureus. But should this be necessary? Also, I would like to note, that although this according to Azureus documentation should “reduce my ability to download”, I’m still getting normal/unchanged speeds for downloads…

By: soulbender

soulbender — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:40:19 +0000

I would be pretty cool, if the author of this guide could say whether or not it should be expected that Tor constantly reports “[Warning] Your application (using socks5 on port 80) is giving Tor only an IP address. Applications that do DNS resolves themselves may leak information. Consider using Socks4A (e.g. via privoxy or socat) instead. For more information, please see http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS.” and that Privoxy seem to doing nothing – it only reports “Info: loading configuration file ‘config.txt’:”

By: EricP

EricP — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:21:53 +0000

Hi,
I’m on a Mac and cannot find the “bttracker” file to even start. Can someone help me out?

Thx

By: MoroccoIsCool

MoroccoIsCool — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:47:23 +0000

peter ragousis is right.
Only communications with the tracker are anonymous with this setup. Peer to peer communications are not.
To have peer to peer communications private, you need to do this:
in Options-Connection-ProxyOptions: check “Enable proxying of peer communications”, use “V4a” for SOCKS, and check “Use same proxy settings…”.
Disclaimer: I would not advise anyone to enable this as it will have a negative impact on the Tor network.

Just to stay politically correct, I have to say that I have tried i2p with azureus: it was a total waste of time…and I am predicting it will never pick up.

MoroccoIsCool

By: DeStructUred Blog » Blog Archive » Some resources links about TOR and Bittorrent

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:11:06 +0000

[...] part-3 azureus anonymityÂ : This article and the following comments are very interesting. The article explains how to configure TOR and Azureus to use hidden service (the hidden service is exposed via TOR and allow other Bittorrent clients to connect to your client). And when using hidden service, communications between peers are routed through TOR. This is the wrong thing. Some comments suggested to use I2P network instead of TOR for peer to peer anonymity. The drawback of I2P network is that you can only connect to peers using also the I2P network and not all the BT clients. [...]

By: Moogle

Moogle — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:21:07 +0000

One more thing,

Tor says this when running with azureus:

giving Tor only an IP address. Applications that do DNS resolves themselves may leak information. Consider using Socks4A.

????

By: moogle

moogle — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:05:10 +0000

How do I know if tor is working with Azureus?

By: antimarty

antimarty — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:58:47 +0000

I tried this because my isp started to block file sharing traffic (I suddenly started getting “SocketException:Connection reset” errors will all BT trackers in Azureus, and connection reset by server errors in all Direct Connect hubs with DC++).

Now Azureus connects to the tracker, but acts like it’s firewalled. The tracker has my correct ip address and port, but says “no/erroneous BT client listening or misconfigured router”, and the Azureus NAT tester now fails also. Azureus works, but can only connect to non-firewalled peers with connections initiated on my end. I don’t see any incoming TCP connections to the Azureus port.

And the UDP stuff on the same port still works normally; the Distributed Database connects fine and I can see that incoming UDP connections are being made to my Azureus port.

Anyway, it works but makes me pseudo-firewalled. Would love to fix it if anybody has an idea.

PS I also tried the similar JAP anonymizer with the exact same result.