What is Tor?
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
You can download it here
Tor needs libevent in order to work. If you don't have it in your system you can download it here. I built tor against libevent version 2.0.10, but version 1.4.14 should work fine, I just haven't tested it. If there is any problem working tor with libevent version 1.4.14 please post it.
If you installed libevent 1.4.14 you need also to symlink a library so type or paste in the terminal:
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ln -s /usr/lib/libevent-1.4.so.1.2.3 /usr/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5
Polipo version 1.0.4.1 — a caching web proxy
What is Polipo
Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo is suitable to be used with tor.
You can download it here
Tor version 0.2.1.29 and Polipo version 1.0.4.1 combined
Here you can find a pet that combines both of them in a single pet and in order to use them you need to click at their menu entries in Network menu.
If you want to start them automatically in every puppy startup then extract the attached Start_tor_polipo and move the 2 files inside it in the /root/Startup folder.
Just keep in mind that you have to change the proxy servers in your browser. Especially for the combined pet you have to add as proxy server:
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127.0.0.1
port: 8118
If you want to use only the tor pet without polipo then you should use port 8123
In order to check weather your tor link to the tor network is working click here.
In tor website I noticed that there is also a tor browser (based on Firefox) that you can use it without needing to install it, thous you can use it even from a usb stick. I haven't tested it but it must work well and it should be very handy for people who doesn't want to get involved with tor configuration.
Both of them are compiled in quirky version 1.40 but should work on any puppy. For more instructions how to use them and configure them please refer to their webpages tor, polipo