Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

[Robert Hogan]

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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