1.1 How does it work ?!
First of all, I want to clarify a point, Trou proxy is for developers that need to root all their application traffic to Tor. Trou hasn't been made to be usable for "classic" users, if you want to navigate on .onion websites please use Tor Browser directly.
(Maybe in the future I'll make a little application that will just open the proxy on system startup, so it will be usable for classic users to root all their traffic to Tor)
Then, what is Trou proxy ? Because yeah Trou proxy isn't a special new proxy. It's just a set of combined proxies. Trou proxy is including:
- Tor proxy
- Privoxy proxy
- Tor controller -> This is not really a proxy, it's just to control the Tor proxy.
- Your computer sends the data to Privoxy (HTTP proxy).
- Privoxy forwards the data to Tor proxy (SOCKS 5 proxy).
- Tor transit all the data through multiple nodes.
- Tor sends the data to the requested website/service..
