Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

slush slush at centrum.cz
Tue Nov 11 23:25:59 UTC 2008


I found another problem in torsocks bash script. There is missing backslash
in sed construction around ". torsocks off". More in googlecode issue
http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=1

Bye,
Marek

2008/10/26 slush <slush at centrum.cz>

> Hi,
>
> nice work! I tried and works perfectly.
>
> Just one typo. in src/usewithtor.in - there is missing # on line four. It
> works, but print warning in runtime.
>
> If is anybody interested, on
> http://www.slush.cz/torsocks_1.0-beta-1_i386.deb is DEB package (made by
> checkinstall tool) for Debian (tested on unstable) and Ubuntu (tested on
> 8.10).
>
> Marek
>
> 2008/10/26 Robert Hogan <robert at roberthogan.net>
>
> Linux users may be familiar with the various patches for tsocks that make
>> it
>> safe for use with Tor.
>>
>>  https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TSocksPatches
>>
>> Torsocks takes all of the patches to tsocks listed at the link above:
>>
>>  http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/source/browse/trunk#trunk/patches
>>
>> applies some other enhancements:
>>
>>  http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/source/browse/trunk/ChangeLog
>>
>> and incorporates them into a new project:
>>
>>  http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/
>>
>> Torsocks allows you to use most socks-friendly applications in a safe way
>> with
>> Tor. Once you have installed torsocks, just launch it like so:
>>
>>  usewithtor [application]
>>
>> So, for example you can use ssh to a some.ssh.com by doing:
>>
>>  usewithtor ssh username at some.ssh.com
>>
>> or launch pidgin by doing:
>>
>>  usewithtor pidgin
>>
>> You can download the current build at:
>>
>>  http://torsocks.googlecode.com/files/torsocks-1.0-beta.tar.gz
>>
>> Torsocks is released under the GNU GPL licence v2. As far as I can make
>> out
>> this is compatible with the original tsocks and all subsequent patches.
>>
>
>
>


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