Orbot: Android Onion Routing Robot *********************************************** Android is a freely licensed open-source application developed for the Android platform. It acts as a front-end to the Tor binary application, and also provides an HTTP Proxy for connecting web browsers and other HTTP client applications into the Tor SOCKS interface. *** PreReqs *** You need the Android Developer SDK to compile and build the APK file: http://developer.android.com/ The project files including in this distribution are meant to be used with Eclipse: http://eclipse.org/ *** How to use *** Currently, Orbot will work with any application that supports using an HTTP or SOCKS Proxy. Once you start Tor using Orbot, you can then point your application to HTTP port 8118 or SOCKS port 9050 on localhost IP 127.0.0.1. If you have root access, and a version of Android with iptables that supports the netfilter owner module, then Orbot can setup transparent proxying for any application. Finally, Firefox on Android is available, and we have released an add-on named ProxyMob for configuring SOCKS proxy settings for use with the local Tor socks proxy. ** A Few Notes ** To ensure you are connected to the Tor network, you should browse to https://check.torproject.org/ The first time you activate Orbot, it may take a while to connect to Tor. Check the message log to ensure you are "100% Bootstrapped". *********************************************** /* Copyright (c) 2009,2010,2011, Nathan Freitas, The Guardian Project * http://guardianproject.info/ */