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How to "flush tor circuit"

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Mar 15, 20268027 views
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On Windows I have used XBBrowser, which provides a custom version of Firefox suited to using Tor. XBBrowser provides a button, flush tor circuit, which will setup an entirely new connection and exit node. I am wondering how to do the equivalent thing on Linux. ALl I can do is restart tor, which doe…

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The solution is to enable the control port in torrc It is also important to set a password for the control port with tor --hash-password password You can then connect to the control port and issue a NEWNYM commands.

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