Tor Plus VPN https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN May 2013 There are many discussions on the Tor Mailing list and spread over many forums about combining Tor with a VPN, SSH and/or a proxy in different variations. X in this article stands for, "either a VPN, SSH or proxy". All different ways to combine Tor with X have different pros and cons. ... general Anonymity and Privacy You can very well decrease your anonymity by using VPN/SSH in addition to Tor. (Proxies are covered in an extra chapter below.) If you know what you are doing you can increase anonymity, security and privacy. ... Who's your adversary? ... De optie : VPN Tor you -> VPN/SSH -> Tor You can route Tor through VPN/SSH services. That might prevent your ISP etc from seeing that you're using Tor (VPN/SSH Fingerprinting below). On one hand, VPNs are more popular than Tor, so you won't stand out as much, on the other hand, in some countries replacing an encrypted Tor connection with an encrypted VPN or SSH ...