Encrypting internet traffic

[bombdiller]

Hi! Can someone tell me how to encrypt internet traffic from and in your computer? Some kind of software or something else? For example, Ghostsurf encrypts your internet traffic, but i would like to try something else!

[Kye-U]

http://tor.eff.org/index.en.html

Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

[iceni60]

there's JAP too. as far as i know it's easier to setup then TOR and is able to use TOR's mixes
http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html

i have JAP and it did make alot of changes afew months ago. does anyone use this newer version of JAP? how do you use the TOR mixes?

here's a screenshot, i know i didn't need to hide the IPs, but one was very close to my DNS, and i panicked

[AvianFlux]

Heads up, iceni60.


PC Magazine

JAP
REVIEW DATE: 10.15.02

SPEC DATA

Product Name: JAP
Company Info: JAP Team, http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html
EDITOR RATING:


By Larry Seltzer, eWEEK
There is still at least one free privacy tool. The unfortunately named JAP—the site doesn't explain the acronym—is funded by the German government. As the version number (0.01.37) indicates, the software is still in development. We had to do some basic manual fiddling with ports and proxies, but afterwards it worked well. You'll have to put up with a mixture of German-language and debug messages, but if you're willing to send all your Web traffic through Dresden, JAP does the job.

[AvianFlux]

Re: Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP)

More at Net anonymity service back-doored and Net anonymity service un-backdoored.

[Dazed_and_Confused]

Originally Posted by bombdiller

Hi! Can someone tell me how to encrypt internet traffic from and in your computer? Some kind of software or something else? For example, Ghostsurf encrypts your internet traffic, but i would like to try something else!

Hi, bombdiller. I use both JAP and Anonymizer. Like both of them.

[iceni60]

Originally Posted by AvianFlux

Re: Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP)

More at Net anonymity service back-doored and Net anonymity service un-backdoored.

hi, AvianFlux thanks for pointing me to this thread from what i know, that backdoor wouldn't have affected me because it just flagged a certain IP address. also it was picked up and patched because it's open source. that was 2 years ago.

[AvianFlux]

Originally Posted by iceni60

hi, AvianFlux thanks for pointing me to this thread from what i know, that backdoor wouldn't have affected me because it just flagged a certain IP address. also it was picked up and patched because it's open source. that was 2 years ago.

This from the bottom of the homepage:

JAP is a software development within the Project Anonymity in the Internet sponsored by the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

The German government still has their fingers in the pie.

[Paranoid2000]

Originally Posted by AvianFlux

The German government still has their fingers in the pie.

Please see this post in the Don't Fear Internet Anonymity Tools thread for a discussion on this.