Does TOR have a built in VPN?
From what I understand, a TOR browser is like a VPN except for there’s not a single destination. Rather than connect to one server that handles all your traffic incoming and outgoing, you connect to one, which connects to another node, which connects to another… until finally your traffic comes out.
You can feed all your traffic through TOR with some hardware and software solutions, so all your traffic is through a “VPN” (when enabled).
TOR is an anonymizer, but not an encryption service. Be sure you’re using HTTPS and other end-to-end encryption to make sure your anonymous traffic is also encrypted.
Disclaimer: I’m just learning this stuff myself, so forgive any misinformation and please anybody correct me where I’m wrong.
That question doesn’t really make sense. Tell us what you are looking to do, and we’ll help you find the right technology to do it. Tor routes traffic through an anonymous network. It is possible to route all your traffic through it and have a setup similar to what a VPN would do. But it is not a VPN.
Eh. In what sense? What are your goals?
It’s Tor and you can route all your traffic through it (e.g. as a socks proxy). See also Whonix documentation.
Tor is not a browser. TBB is.
Whonix gateway is probably the thing you need.
Tor is trustless, VPNs aren’t. Unless you need to do something very specific you probably just need one or the other.
No - Tor is a network, not a piece of software, so there is nothing “built-in” to it.
Well, TOR isn’t necessarily a VPN by itself. Yes, it does encrypt your traffic, but not on both ends. Your ISP can see that you are using TOR and can be suspicious of you using TOR at all. In the entry node, the node can see your IP address, but doesn’t know what actual traffic you’re using. Other the other end, the exit node doesn’t know your IP address, but it does know what traffic you’re sending.
In short, yes and no. It has its good and bad things.
If not are there trusted VPN free services for Linux or a way to make my own?
Tor does encrypt your traffic but if you aren’t using end to end encryption then a malicious exit node could spy on your traffic but it wouldn’t necessarily know it was yours.
I don’t think you can use the words “free” and “trusted” in the same sentence when talking about VPNs.
a malicious exit node could spy on your traffic but it wouldn’t necessarily know it was yours.
Though there’s been plenty of techniques known for traffic correlation, and some pretty famous examples of these techniques working to bust people doing bad things online, so depending on OP’s threat model, “wouldn’t necessarily know it was yours” may be good enough.
I agree im asking for a friend he wont listen
You are aware OpenVPN isn’t a service right?
Typically you provide your own setup and connect to your own server.
Or you can use it as a client to connect to a service who provides an *.ovpn profile.
You are aware that applications in linux are often referred to as services, right? You do realise OpenVPN functions as both a client and a server, right?
It’s the first step into making his own.
Yes that’s why I mentioned both use-case scenarios.
However, I wouldn’t use my own vpn for anonymity but security.
The flaw in setting up your own is all you’re doing is re-routing all your traffic to a different SINGLE endpoint thus anybody sitting at the end can monitor ALL your traffic like normal.
Unless you plan on using that + TOR.
You’ll still need to pay for access to some type of cloud VPS in order to setup OpenVPN server.
I would prefer to be hidden in the masses vs singled out due to my own private vpn.