Installing TOR browser

There are many ways of installing TOR but an easy step is to go to TOR website, download, extract the file and install it on Kali Linux. So, here we go.

STEPS:

1. Go to www.torproject.org.

2. Click on Download.

3. Navigate 32 bit or 64 bit for GNU/Linux, click on Download and then select Save file and press ok.

4. Once the file is downloaded, open terminal and type cd command to go to the directory where the file has been downloaded.
5. Decompress the file by running tar with xvzf parameters.
6. Once the file is decompressed, goto the tor folder.
7. Edit the file start-tor-browser in a text editor, like leafpad, by giving admin right
8. Run the browser, either by clicking on start-tor-browser or through terminal window by typing ./start-tor-browser.

Now let's see these by an example. Let's say, at the time of release, the filename of the tor browser is tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-15-dev-en-US.tar.gz(for 32-bit, it may different depending on the architecture of your OS). This file has been downloaded in my Downloads directory. So, here are the steps that I performed.

(a) root@kali:~#cd Downloads
(b) root@kali:~/Downloads#tar -xvzf tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-15-dev-en-US.tar.gz
(c) root@kali:~/Downloads#cd tor-browser_en-US
(d) root@kali:~/Downloads/cd tor-browser_en-US#leafpad start-tor-browser

Once the file is opened in leafpad, press ctrl + f and type root and then search. Now change the value from 0 to 1, as you are allowing tor browser file with administrative privilege.

Save the file and exit.

(e) root@kali:~/Downloads/cd tor-browser_en-US#./start-tor-browser to start tor browser.

TOR for Kali Linux

Tor (used to stand for "The Onion Router", but it's no longer considered an abbreviation, so it's just "Tor"), is an anonymity network, used to surf the web (and more) anonymously. Basically, anyone running the Tor software on their computer runs a proxy, and traffic gets passed (encrypted) from one person running Tor to another person running Tor, multiple times through many users, until it get's to the page that you requested. Hence the term "Onion" used to describe it, since it works in "layers". Each person running Tor on their computer is called a "Node".

To the page (and anyone logging requests to that page, such as the website owner for example) they can only see the IP address of the last Node (called the "end node"). Any communication along the way, between you, when you request the website page, and the final destination, is encrypted, and cannot be analyzed. However, the last Node in the chain can log and view traffic through it, if the person running it is unscrupulous, so for that reason it can't be said that Tor is 100% anonymous.

TOR Auto-install Shellscript

#!/bin/sh

echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

clear scr

echo "[*] Installing the keys...."

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89

gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

echo "Ready!!"

clear scr

echo "[*] Updating Repositories...."

apt-get update

clear scr

echo "[*] Installing TOR"

apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring

apt-get install tor

echo "Ready!!"

echo "[*] Installing Vidalia"

apt-get install vidalia

echo "Ready!!"

echo "[*] Installing iceweasel-torbutton"

apt-get install iceweasel-torbutton

echo "Ready!!"

clear scr

echo "[*] Installing Privoxy"

apt-get install privoxy

echo "[*] Configuring privoxy"

echo "forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 ." >> /etc/privoxy/config

echo "Ready!!"

service tor restart

service privoxy restart

echo "Tor has been installed successfully."

Save this script to a file like torinstall.sh and chmod +x it.

#chmod +x torinstall.sh

#./torinstall.sh