 Anonymity
How to use the anonymizing service
On the register card Configuration, the settings and the current
status of JAP concerning the connection to the anon service is
displayed under the option Anonymity. When the check box Activate
anonymous web access is activated in the main program window, JAP directs all requests through the
anon service. Directly below this, the URL of the first mix is
displayed. Additionally, there is a status display that provides
information about the service's usability. If you want to surf
anonymously, it must show Status: active.
Please note that you must have connected to the Internet before activating
anonymous access, since JAP establishes a permanent connection to the first
mix. This connection remains active even if you don't send any
requests, since status information is periodically exchanged.
Please note that, as long as the anonymous access is activated, the automatic disconnection
after a certain time of inactivity does not work,
since JAP permanently gets status information from the Info Service.
Configuration
You can change the URL of the anon service if you want to use a different
mix cascade. To do so, please click on the Change button.
Now there are three possibilities to choose another anon service:
- You can ask the InfoService to update the locally stored list of anon
services. For this, select Fetch available... and click the Fetch button.
This procedure updates the local database.
- From the local database you can select an anon service by choosing
Select Anon Server and clicking on the name of one of the anon
services in the drop down menu.
- Apart from this you have the opportunity to enter the URL of the anon
service manually.
Manually entering the anon service makes sense
if there are alternative operators of mix cascades who work with the JAP
protocol. Normally, only the first two settings should be
used.
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