![]() ![]() onion name from the “hostname file” we opened above. We need to add some command line arguments to Onioncat in the “Target” field: -t 9150 -U 2e6c3gboyngav2rq.onion. Now right-click on it again and choose “Properties”. Your shortcut icon appears on the desktop. Right-click on the desktop, then “New->Shortcut” and either browse to the ocat.exe (which you copied to C:\Windows\System32\ocat.exe) or just paste the path to it into the text field: C:\Windows\System32\ocat.exe (adjust the path if you keep it somewhere else on your hard drive). Now we create a shortcut to run Onioncat. Keep the file open, you will need this string in the next step. The file contains the onion ID of your v2 hidden service, e.g. Open it with the Notepad (right-click -> “Open with” -> “Notepad”). Navigate into “onioncat_hsv2”, there’s a file named “hostname”. Two additional folders should have appeared: “onioncat_hsv2” and “onioncat_hsv3”. Now you can start the Tor browser (there should be an icon on your desktop) and click on “Connect”.Īfter it started successfully, again go to the File Explorer to the same directory (“This PC > Desktop > Tor Browser > Browser > TorBrowser > Data > Tor”). HiddenServiceDir TorBrowser\Data\Tor\onioncat_hsv3 HiddenServiceDir TorBrowser\Data\Tor\onioncat_hsv2 They configure two hidden services for Onioncat. ![]() The Notepad will open the file and show its contents. Make sure that the Tor browser is not running because otherwise it will overwrite the file after you edited it. Right-click it, chose “Open with” and select the Notepad. The folder contains the configuration file of Tor named torrc. Open the “File Explorer” and navigate to the folder “This PC > Desktop > Tor Browser > Browser > TorBrowser > Data > Tor”. Configure Torīefore starting the Tor browser (which will start a local Tor node) we need to configure a hidden service. Copy these three files to C:\Windows\System32 (note: if you don’t like that, you can keep the files where ever like). The file contains two EXE files and a DLL. Before running the Tor browser we have to configure it which is explained in the next step.ĭownload the precompiled Windows 10 files of Onioncat from here. It seems that Tor for Windows can only be downloaded as the Tor Browser Bundle but that doesn’t matter. You can leave the default settings but actually you just need the “TAP Virtual Ethernet Adapter”.ĭownload and install Tor. During the setup procedure you can choose the components to install. Hence you need to download and install OpenVPN from here. Windows does not natively support such an adapter but OpenVPN includes the necessary driver. ![]() Onioncat needs a tunnel device which is a virtual Ethernet adapter. If you’re still happy with Windows go ahead and read on. If you don’t know how to use these other systems but you really need high security you should probably seek advice from somebody near you. Tails, or some other Linux distributions which are much more transparent than Windows. If you intend to use Onioncat you are probably in a situation where security matters and you should consider to use a system which is designed for such circumstances, e.g. Onioncat is solely used in conjunction with Tor or I2P, both being anti-surveillance tools. ![]() Windows is not the type of operating system which is known for its good security. If you read this article you probably know what you are doing, aren’t you? This document is here to meet recent versions of Windows, Tor, and Onioncat. The Windows part of the code was already written in 2008, hence Onioncat on Windows is nothing new. This document describes how to run Onioncat on a Windows 10 installation together with the Tor browser bundle. Onioncat ist written in a portable manner, thus it runs on almost all operating systems, even on Windows. ![]()
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