{"id":228,"date":"2018-12-30T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T20:05:42","slug":"status-of-tor-i2p-and-freenet-install-and-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Status of Tor, I2P and FreeNet install and usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Status of Tor, I2P and FreeNet install and usage&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This entry is an update to the ongoing Qubes OS testing as a usable operating platform.\u00a0\u00a0 For this I tested the installing of Tor, I2P and Freenet in a Qube  and in a standalone VM.\u00a0 I must admit I had better sucess then I  expected on all of them.\u00a0 I will first describe my configuration for the  test, the Qube  and the Standalone VM.\u00a0 Yes, I am running two installs, but only use  one for my day to day testing.\u00a0 The day to day testing is the Qube  or as the document state an APPVM.\u00a0 The Standalone VM is Ubuntu 12.04,  patched up to 14.04 at this time.\u00a0 I am finding a few stability issues  with the Standalone VM if I patch up to 16.04 and 18.04.\u00a0 Most of them  are graphic problems that most likely are with Xen.\u00a0 The standalone VM is mostly for verify testing that what I have on the AppVM should be working.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AppVM is a clone of the Debian 9 installed templet that I called SecureMachine.\u00a0  I like to use cloned templets for testing, so I always have a source of  clean base templet.\u00a0 Also, backups are easy to run before I do any  tinkering with apps on the templet.\u00a0 The following is the sections and  what status is for them:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tor:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tor was the easiest of all to install.\u00a0 I did not need to modify the SecureMachine\u2019s templet at all.\u00a0 I just started the AppVM,  opened the Firefox browser.\u00a0 and pulled down the Tor bundle from the  Tor site.\u00a0 Ran the install and Wala, installed into the private section  of my home directory.\u00a0\u00a0 It is true that I could just use the Whonix AppVM,  (which I do most of the time), But it was for a test anyway.\u00a0 I need to  run it from a command line currently, other than that it starts the Tor  circuit, then Tor browser as required.\u00a0 So am happy with the outcome.\u00a0 I  will still be using the Whonix Qube for my primary Tor access.\u00a0 I also set up a Tor hidden service on a StandaloneVM running Ubuntu server.\u00a0\u00a0 that was least as well.\u00a0 I needed to add the Tor source location into the package list.\u00a0 did an APT install of Tor, modified the Torrc entry for hidden service and rebooted the StandAlone VM to bring the service up.\u00a0 I also set up a connection to one of my normal Personal AppVM to the Ubuntu Standalone VM so it can be reached by that AppVM.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I2P&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The I2P install was a bit more of an issue, I needed to install it first in the templet then again in the AppVM.\u00a0 The reason for this is it needed helper apps first, things like cryptolibs and other special libs. This will depend on your patch lever and apps installed. Then I did a reinstall in the AppVM  and it installed in the private directory with no issues. Running I2P  needed to be started from the terminal command line, after changing to  the i2p directory.\u00a0 It stared the browser, but I needed to modify a  setting in the browsers network to use the proper port.\u00a0 Your setup may vary if you need to or not do this.\u00a0 It  runs stable and seems to be quick.\u00a0 The peering and gathering of  connections have been quick.\u00a0 I was able to install plugins and even set  up a page for access by others.\u00a0 I am using the default install  settings at the moment, later I may modify a few to see if any speed or operation changes occur.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Freenet&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Freenet  was not too bad.\u00a0 I could not use the browser-based install, so I need  to do the command line steps.\u00a0 Before that I needed to install java into  the Secure_Machine templet. Then install the freenet program into the private home directory section of the AppVM.\u00a0 This as well needed to be down at the command line, so needed to start the terminal.\u00a0 It went well, now to start I need to open a terminal and run the freenet program with java.\u00a0 It runs and opens the browser, it runs quite quickly and stable.\u00a0 As mentioned before I first installed freenet into the StandAlone Ubuntu Desktop VM, using the same general steps as the AppVM for testing.\u00a0 Here as well I am using the AppVM most of the time now.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is other Dark Web type application I may try later.\u00a0 But for now, I will keep testing with the big three, Tor, I2P, and Freenet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a safe, secure, and anonymous internet exploring in all you do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Status of Tor, I2P and FreeNet install and usage&nbsp; This entry is an update to the ongoing Qubes OS testing as a usable operating platform.\u00a0\u00a0 For this I tested the installing of Tor, I2P and Freenet in a Qube and in a standalone VM.\u00a0 I must admit I had better sucess then I expected on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otakusystems.com\/otakublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}