The Tor Project (the onion routing) is an open source implementation of onion routing that provides free access to an anonymous proxy network. Its primary goal is to enable online anonymity by protecting against traffic analysis attacks. See Wikipedia:Tor (anonymity network) and ArchWiki:Tor for more information.

Installation

Install the tor package and the service package for your respective init system.

dinit

 root # pacman -S tor tor-dinit

OpenRC

 root # pacman -S tor tor-openrc

runit

 root # pacman -S tor tor-runit

s6

 root # pacman -S tor tor-s6

66

 root # pacman -S tor tor-suite66

Services

Enable and start tor

OpenRC

To start immediately:

 root # rc-service tor start

To start the tor service on system boot, add it to the default runlevel

 root # rc-update add tor default

runit

Enable tor

 root # ln -s /etc/runit/sv/tor /run/runit/service

Start tor

 root # sv up/down/restart tor

s6

Start tor

 root # s6-rc -u change tor

66

Enable tor

 root # 66-enable -t default tor

Start tor

 root #  66-start -t default tor

See also