Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor

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Post by fmx » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 2:22 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #9

bjpbakker wrote: post #7

Interesting but I doubt whether you really want to route /all/ your network traffic through Tor. As soon as some packet that reaches the internet (through an exit node) that includes some identity information your Tor connection is no longer private. Routing all your traffic via Tor, increases the chance this will happen. Also if many people use Tor for all their traffic, this will become a scalability problem for To…

I would assume if you're going this far you're likely running this module under a Linux VM so only specifics go through Tor.

If you do that then you may as well just use two VMs - Tor router and client - and that's basically Whonix.

Re: Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor

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Post by CodesInChaos » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

How does this compare to Tails? Conceptually they look similar, both having the kernel enforce that all traffic goes through Tor.

But Tails is a configured with security and Tor in mind. I don't see when I'd want to install such a kernel module on a normal distribution over a specialized distribution. (Or a multi-vm setup like whonix, instead of trusting the kernel)

Re: Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

CodesInChaos wrote: post #12

How does this compare to Tails? Conceptually they look similar, both having the kernel enforce that all traffic goes through Tor. But Tails is a configured with security and Tor in mind. I don't see when I'd want to install such a kernel module on a normal distribution over a specialized distribution. (Or a multi-vm setup like whonix, instead of trusting the kernel)

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