[OTR-users] using TOR + socks with OTR + Pidgin

Jacob Appelbaum jacob at appelbaum.net
Tue Nov 6 18:47:36 EST 2012


australia111 at hushmail.com:
> Hi
> 
> Anyone know how to use TOR + socks  with Pidgin + OTR ?
> Can it be done?
> 

This website has a reasonable guide:

  https://help.riseup.net/en/pidgin

Current versions of Pidgin have a proxy type called "Tor/privacy proxy"
- simply enter the SOCKS proxy information (eg: 127.0.0.1 on port 9050 )
as normal.

All the best,
Jacob



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