After restarting the browser, you can visit the Tor check site to do so. The software works with all major desktop environments on Linux.Īfter starting the SelekTOR GUI, first make sure that Tor has started correctly. The current SelekTOR 3 (November 2014 version) release has a version number of 3.12-11.Īlthough the software was written in Java, separate versions exist for Linux and Windows, and only the Windows version comes with the Tor software (see the "Installing SelekTOR" box). You also need to remove any existing older version of SelekTOR before installing the new version. If Vidalia is already installed, you must remove it before using SelekTOR.
Only the next version of the software will have Java 8 support. The program does require an installed Java runtime environment (JRE) 7 or its free implementation, OpenJRE 1.7. SelekTOR supports Firefox or its offshoot Pale Moon, as well as Opera and Chrome or Chromium, with no additional plugins. The developer points out that SelekTOR is only an interface for the Tor client and launcher, not a substitute for the Tor browser. For an introduction to the Tor anonymity solution, see the project website. I'll assume you have some basic familiarity with Tor. In this article, I show how to configure and use the SelekTOR front end. For example, SelekTOR offers semi-automatic configuration of the Tor client, as well as a choice of exit nodes sorted by country. Although the Tor project offers its own user interface for its anonymous router in the form of Vidalia, the alternative SelekTOR front end provides some functions that Vidalia lacks. The complete Tor package lets you surf the web in relative anonymity and use services such as email, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and P2P. Whether the red dashed line from the exit node to the destination server really is unencrypted depends on the protocol used (HTTP or HTTPS).
Figure 1: Schematic representation of the Tor approach.
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