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Aug 28
Onioncat is an add-on for anonymization networks such as Tor and I2P. It adds real IP layer networking capability to hosts connected through Tor. Hence it is not enough to just refer to the security of Tor (or I2P). This article discusses security Considerations which are specific to Onioncat. Of course, since Onioncat relies on …
Aug 21
Onioncat ist written in a portable manner, thus it runs on almost all operating systems, even on Windows. This document describes how to run Onioncat on a Windows 10 installation together with the Tor browser bundle. The Windows part of the code was already written in 2008, hence Onioncat on Windows is nothing new. This …
Aug 20
This is a new version of the Garlicat-HOWTO which I wrote about 10 years ago in November 2009. Actually, this original HOWTO still applies but, anyway, I rewrote it to match the software versions of today, August 2019. This document is based on the I2P router version 0.9.41 and Onioncat 0.2.7, both running on a …
Aug 19
For security reasons the Tor project introduced hidden services version 3 (HSv3) which facilitate stronger cryptography to comply with modern needs for security. Onioncat was developed with version 2 of hidden services which are still in place work as expected. Unfortunately HSv3 do not integrate smoothly into the OnionCat concept but nevertheless, with a few …
Jan 09
It was almost exactly 10 years ago that we started to run our OnionCat SVN repository for managing the source code. As of today, the 9th of January 2018, the OnionCat source repository has moved to Github at https://github.com/rahra/onioncat. This also solves the mailing list problem. To be honest, the mailing list never really worked …
Dec 15
You operate your own server running some web services, a mail submission service, an IMAP service, of course ssh for maintenance and several other services? But unfortunately you cannot reach any ports except 80 and 443 as soon as you are somewhere in a public Wifi because of firewall restrictions? Then OnionCat is your friend …
Sep 05
This article is about how to compile and run OnionCat on Android. Unfortunately, there is no Android app which simply enables it, due to the lack of programming power.1 But if you are familiar with compiling projects and using ADB and the command line, this should be no big deal for you. Here’s how it …
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