Good to know. Thank you for a very useful tool! - Kyle On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Robert Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > 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. > > >
