Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 04:10:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: John Case <case@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tor-talk] Can we come up with a lighter,
easier torified client apps ?
My only use for tor is to set up plain old interactive ssh logins.
If I want to do this, I need to install the full blown tor package, and run
tor (and quality assure it, sanity check my local installation, perform
regular maintenance, etc.) just so I can run ssh with a netcat proxy command
pointing back to my own tor instance blah blah blah.
Ok, fine. I've done it for years.
But sometimes I just need to make a quick connection from a system that I
don't have time, or authority, to do major package installation and run
daemons, etc. What I would really love is:
cd /usr/ports/net/torssh
make install ; rehash
torssh user@xxxxxxxx
But this brings up a larger question ... are there ANY standalone end user
applications that have tor built into them ? or at least, enough of tor to
simply connect and run connections over tor ?
So never mind that ssh is my particular need - think of any simple
application: fetch, wget, telnet, sftp, whatever ... it would really, really
be nice if I could just fire off a 'fetch' command over tor without doing
major software installation (and the associated QA, maintenance, research,
etc.) with it.
Yes, I am aware of ancillary issues, like DNS leaks. But if you're packaging
up the particular application as "torssh" or "torfetch" then presumably you
package it up without the leaks, which in my opinion is much safer than
providing a general "torify" mechanism and hoping that people figure out the
leak characteristics of their particular app - which is not easy, as
evidenced by the little 'nc' table that is shown on the TorifyHOWTO wiki page
...
Comments ? Has this ever been done with any particular app ? Is there a
fundamental flaw in wanting this ?
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