Version 1.0, 2022/07/21, Bernhard R. Fischer <bf@abenteuerland.at>. Original Source: https://github.com/rahra/onioncat/blob/master/doc/INTRO_TO_ONIONCAT4.txt ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the development of OnionCat in 2008 a lot has changed. Most importantly this is the replacement of Tor’s hidden services version 2 by the new hidden services version 3. This had a severe impact on the functionality of OnionCat. This …
Category: HowTo
Aug 21
Onioncat on Windows
Onioncat ist written in a portable manner, thus it runs on almost all operating systems, even on Windows. This document describes how to run Onioncat on a Windows 10 installation together with the Tor browser bundle. The Windows part of the code was already written in 2008, hence Onioncat on Windows is nothing new. This …
Aug 20
Garlicat-HOWTO
This is a new version of the Garlicat-HOWTO which I wrote about 10 years ago in November 2009. Actually, this original HOWTO still applies but, anyway, I rewrote it to match the software versions of today, August 2019. This document is based on the I2P router version 0.9.41 and Onioncat 0.2.7, both running on a …
Aug 19
Onioncat and Tor Hidden Services V3
For security reasons the Tor project introduced hidden services version 3 (HSv3) which facilitate stronger cryptography to comply with modern needs for security. Onioncat was developed with version 2 of hidden services which are still in place work as expected. Unfortunately HSv3 do not integrate smoothly into the OnionCat concept but nevertheless, with a few …
Dec 15
Evading Firewalls With OnionCat
You operate your own server running some web services, a mail submission service, an IMAP service, of course ssh for maintenance and several other services? But unfortunately you cannot reach any ports except 80 and 443 as soon as you are somewhere in a public Wifi because of firewall restrictions? Then OnionCat is your friend …
Sep 05
OnionCat on Android
This article is about how to compile and run OnionCat on Android. Unfortunately, there is no Android app which simply enables it, due to the lack of programming power.1 But if you are familiar with compiling projects and using ADB and the command line, this should be no big deal for you. Here’s how it …