Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

[Kyle Williams]

Very cool.
How is this different than proxychains?
It seems like they both do the same thing.

- Kyle



On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Robert Hogan <robert at roberthogan.net>wrote:

> 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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