[tor-talk] Tor over SSH (torsocks) (?)

[blobby at openmailbox.org]

On 2015-02-16 02:31, Dave Warren wrote:
> On 2015-02-15 16:35, Mirimir wrote:
>> On 02/15/2015 02:22 PM, blobby at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>> I want to login to my VPS over SSH.
>>> 
>>> Is torsocks still a safe way to do this? A lot of the documentation
>>> (such as it is) is several years old.
>> I prefer to run an SSH hidden service on the VPS.
> 
> I'd tend to agree; if you control the endpoint, set it up as a hidden
> service rather than having Tor exit node involved at all.
> 
> While running hidden services alongside non-hidden services introduces
> some risks, most of these are less significant when connecting to SSH
> on a server that you control.

I don't think I phrased my question very well. I'm not running a hidden 
server. I'm just logging in to a shared VPS to ftp. etc, rather than 
logging in to a control panel over HTTPS.

I just want a simple way to do "ssh IP port" but with Tor.