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

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Tue Feb 17 13:40:55 UTC 2015


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:22:25PM +0000, 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 believe many people happily use torsocks and rely on it. It's just
as safe now as it was then -- probably needs some audits, but probably
works pretty well.

You'll likely be happiest using torsocks 2, which might not be the
version that comes in your distro yet.

--Roger



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