Hi Georg, thanks for your reply! More inline. Georg Koppen (2017-11-24 07:12:00 +0000) wrote:
> Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer: > > > > […] Since the main entry point to the system will usually be a web proxy, we > > were wondering whether it would make sense to use the Tor Browser and > > leverage all the great efforts already put into it to take care of such > > anonymization of requests, instead of reinventing the wheel ourselves. > > Could you elaborate on what you mean with "anonymization of requests"? Sure, I was referring to the many techniques mentioned here: <https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/> I ran some tests and checked that the HTTP requests themselves for simple public pages don't look that different from those of a normal browser in terms of headers… But the rest of techniques employed may be valuable as well. > > Do you think it makes sense to use the Tor Browser with a different > > proxy than Tor? Is there some technical hurdle (i.e. some source code > > modification) that would prevent it from working? > > Yes, you would need to patch Tor Browser to adapt it to your needs. > There have been a lot of requests in the past for being able to use Tor > Browser and its defenses without Tor. There are folks that stepped up > and made this happen. Look at all the jondobrowser- repos at > https://github.com/jondos. Umm, I wasn't aware of that particular aspect of that project. It may be very useful for our purpose and we'll definitely have a deeper look at it. Thanks a lot for the info! -- Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
