Thus spake Anothony Georgeo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Mike, > > Nice catch :-) > > I would like to use your Snakes on a Tor but I'm not sure how to use > it. I downloaded it and I have all the required apps (md5summer, > wget and openssl) on my Windows XP Home. > > Could you give me a quick how-to? > > BTW, I have my HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environmental variables > set to 127.0.0.1:8118. > > Thanks and sorry for the asking,
I'm guessing actually scanning is going to be WAY over your head. It's really meant for people who run Tor servers on Linux boxen and know what they're doing, because right now you have to manually eyeball the SSL certs and MD5 error files to double-check everything is Ok. I'll try to improve that in a few weeks. But, the Metatroller is a neat toy if you just want to investigate censorship conditions in China/Germany for a day or whatever. For that you DO NOT actually need md5summer, wget, and openssl. You only need those if you want to run soat.pl. For the Metatroller to work, you need to tell Vidalia to start Tor with an alternate torrc. Open a new 'torrc' textfile on your Desktop somewhere and put the lines: ControlPort 9051 __LeaveStreamsUnattached 1 in it. Tell Vidalia in its config window to use this file as an alternate torrc location. Restart Tor. Once you have everything in your path, ActivePerl installed and Vidalia set up to use this Torrc, either Start->Run.. "cmd.exe" or launch cygwin, and cd to the directory you unzipped SOAT into. You should be able to type 'metatroller.pl cached-directory country-codes' and it shoud print a WARN and a NOTICE that it is ready. Periodically you should hit up http://moria.mit.edu:9031/tor/ and save that output to 'cached-directory' in the SOAT dir. Ditto for http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.pl?textonly=1. Save that to 'country-codes' in the same dir. Once it's all set up, if you want to play with the Metatroller's options, you can open another cmd.exe and type 'telnet 127.0.0.1 9052' and you should be able to give it the commands it lists under 'HELP'. You can actually watch the metatroller build circuits in the Vidalia network status window. Now mind the warnings I gave about the Metatroller and anonymity, ESPECIALLY if you fire up soat.pl also. If you run soat.pl, you should be running it on a seperate machine than you are using normally (or inside a vmware image or simply another instance of Tor) because of shortened pathlengths, strange exit selection strategy, etc etc etc. To actually scan, you need md5summer to be renamed to md5sum.exe, and you need all those tools to be in your path. Perhaps c:\windows if you don't mind the clutter. Hopefully the output from md5summer is the same as UNIX md5sum.. I'm guessing these complications probably will make it beyond your ability to actually scan at this time.. Between these ramblings and the README file, hopefully you can at least tinker with the Metatroller for a bit so you can bask in the glory of some orbiting mind control lasers. Winter is coming, maybe you can save on the heating bill. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
