'tor' is an implementation of The Onion Routing system, as
described in a bit more detail at http://www.onion-router.net/. You
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See the INSTALL file for a quickstart. That is all you will probably need.
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You only need to look beyond this point if the quickstart in the INSTALL
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Do you want to run a tor server?

  First, set up a config file for your node (start with sample-orrc and
  edit the top portion). Then run the node (as above, but with the new
  config file) to generate keys. One of the generated files is your
  'fingerprint' file.  Mail it to arma@mit.edu. Remember that you won't
  be able to authenticate to the other tor nodes until I've added you
  to the directory.

Configuring tsocks:

  If you want to use Tor for protocols that can't use Privoxy, or
  with applications that are not socksified, then download tsocks
  (tsocks.sourceforge.net) and configure it to talk to localhost:9050
  as a socks4 server. My /etc/tsocks.conf simply has:
    server_port = 9050
    server = 127.0.0.1
  (I had to "cd /usr/lib; ln -s /lib/libtsocks.so" to get the tsocks
   library working after install, since my libpath didn't include /lib.)
  Then you can do "tsocks ssh arma@moria.mit.edu". But note that if
  ssh is suid root, you either need to do this as root, or cp a local
  version of ssh that isn't suid.