Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

[Kyle Williams]

Good to know.  Thank you for a very useful tool!
- Kyle

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Robert Hogan <robert at roberthogan.net>wrote:

> On Monday 27 October 2008 19:04:38 Kyle Williams wrote:
> > Very cool.
> > How is this different than proxychains?
> > It seems like they both do the same thing.
> >
>
> I actually wasn't aware of proxychains, which looks like it was written
> about the same time as tsocks.
>
> You're right that they more or less do the same thing, and they more or
> less do it the same way - by using LD_PRELOAD to hook a program's calls
> for writing to and reading from the network, including DNS.
>
> Apart from the fact that proxychains allows you to chain your traffic
> through multiple proxies I think torsocks does the following 'extra' bits:
>
> - It supports some dns/network calls that proxychains does not, e.g.
> getpeerinfo.
> - It blocks primitive UDP calls by the application (to help prevent DNS
> leaks via UDP).
> - It supports the use of hidden services.
>
> I haven't looked at proxychains very closely and I have to confess I
> haven't even used it, but I *think* that is about it.
>
> >
> > 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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