Re: [tor-talk] Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP Proxies?

[Flipchan]

I have read alot of bad guys putting up http proxies so i would not recommend 
useing a public one, here is some cool research 
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=RlSbpVz3RsM

Laura Sharpe  skrev: (14 oktober 2016 14:20:00 CEST)
>Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP proxies? Like this:
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>Use proxychains and in /etc/proxychains.conf use:
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>[ProxyList]
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># defaults set to "tor"
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>socks5 127.0.0.1 9050
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>In "standard" Firefox (not the TBB) set Manual Proxy Configuration to a
>HTTP proxy and use the same proxy for all protocols. Make sure Remote
>DNS is ticked.
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>Assume that the HTTP proxy is legitimate.
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>From the command line run:
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>proxychains firefoxhttp://www.example_site.com/
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>Traffic will be routed by proxychains through Tor then is transferred
>through the HTTP proxy.
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>You may say that this is a bad idea since HTTP works at the application
>layer and hence traffic can be intercepted by the provider of the HTTP
>proxy (unlike SOCKS proxies which work at the transport layer (I
>think)). But if the traffic from the user is always to a HTTPS site,
>then why should there be a problem even if the content was intercepted?
>
>
>I know that you can also use proxychains with SOCKS proxies but my
>questions is specifically about using proxychains with HTTP proxies.
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Re: [tor-talk] Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP Proxies?

[Nicolas Vigier]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Laura Sharpe wrote:

> Is it secure to use Tor with HTTP proxies? Like this:

It depends what you mean by "secure", but Tor Browser includes many
protections to avoid leaking private informations and make all browsers
look the same, which you will be missing if you use a standard browser
through Tor:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

It's also unclear why you want to connect to an HTTP proxy through Tor
and what you are trying to solve by doing that. If your goal is to browse
websites anonymously, then using standard Tor Browser is probably what
you should do.

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