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Take Back the Darknet (Part 11)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 11 - Configuring HTTPS (SSL) Generate SSL keys via CAcert.org. Great website for doing this is right here. You’ll need to create three things: .csr for the certificate signing request (CSR) .crt for the signed certificate file .key for the key file cd ~ openssl genrsa -out tim.key 4096... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 10)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 10 - Configuring Tor Stop the Tor service from running while we tinker. sudo service tor stop Remove the default configuration file. sudo rm /etc/tor/torrc Fire up Nano and make a new configuration file. sudo nano /etc/tor/torrc Enter the following. If only using one website, don’t enter the second... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 9)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 9 - Configuring Apache First up, here’s a cool add-on to limit speed and amount of connections of the people visiting your website. Great if you have finite bandwidth on the upstream. Its specific settings can be found in the tim.conf config below under “IfModule mod_bw.c”. Installing this is... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 8)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 8 - Installing Tor To get Tor up and running we need to install it with the following. sudo apt-get install tor -y And just like that Tor is installed and establishing Tor circuits. sudo service tor stop Let’s stop Apache as well. sudo service apache stop We need... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 7)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 7 - Hardening Apache and Secure Shell Next up we harden Apache and OpenSSH for the glass is always half empty. Start off by editing the security configuration file for Apache2. sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf-available/security.conf Change ServerTokens OS to ServerTokens Prod and change ServerSignature On to ServerSignature Off Save and... Continue reading