(Default: /etc/tor/torrc-defaults.) -ignore-missing-torrc The contents of this file are overridden by those in the regular configuration file, and by those on the command line. Specify a file in which to find default values for Tor options. (Default: /etc/tor/torrc, or $HOME/.torrc if that file is not found.) -allow-missing-torrcĪllow the configuration file specified by -f to be missing, if the defaults-torrc file (see below) is accessible. Specify a new configuration file to contain further Tor configuration options, or pass - to make Tor read its configuration from standard input. h, -helpĭisplay a short help message and exit. The following options in this section are only recognized on the tor command line, not in a configuration file. See The Configuration File Format for more information. Users bounce their TCP streams, including web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc., around the network, so that recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.Ĭonfiguration options on the command line override those in configuration files. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals the downstream node.īasically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays ('onion routers').

Each node in a virtual circuit knows its predecessor and successor nodes, but no other nodes.

Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and negotiate a 'virtual circuit' through the network. Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. The second-generation onion router Synopsis

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