What is Orbot?

Orbot is an application that allows mobile phone users to access the web, instant messaging and email without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider. Orbot brings the features and functionality of Tor (read more below) to the Android mobile operating system.

Orbot 1.0.4 is currently available in the Android Market and from the Tor Project website.

About the Tor Project

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Learn more at https://torproject.org

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Usage Notes

Orbot requires different configuration depending on the Android operating system version it is used on.

For standard Android 1.x devices (G1, MyTouch3G, Hero, Droid Eris, Cliq, Moment)

• WEB BROWSING: You can use the Orweb Privacy Browser which we offer, which only works via Orbot and Tor
• For Instant Messsaging, please Gibberbot which provides integrated, optional support for Orbot and Tor

For Android 2.x devices: Droid, Nexus, Evo, Galaxy

• For non-rooted devices, you can use Firefox for Android with our ProxyMob Add-On.
• For Instant Messsaging, please Gibberbot which provides integrated, optional support for Orbot and Tor
• Transparent Proxying: You must root your device in order for Orbot to work transparently for all web and DNS traffic. If you root your device, whether it is 1.x or 2.x based, Orbot will automatically, transparently proxy all web traffic on port 80 and 443 and all DNS requests. This includes the built-in Browser, Gmail, YouTube, Maps and any other application that uses standard web traffic.

Developers

• Source code is available via SVN: svn co https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/android/
• This code is available under the Tor License
• Come discuss on #tor and #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net