Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

[adrelanos <adrelanos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted Smith:
> On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 13:09 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:02 PM, adrelanos <adrelanos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> [
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> What are the consequences?
>>>
>>
>> Probably somebody should fork it?
>>
> 
> I consider myself someone moderately familiar with the Tor culture.
> 
> However, it's impossible for me as a user to know what I should be using
> to force programs to use Tor.

"Don't."

I think there is no official advise:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5553

The official advice currently is "use the Tor Browser Bundle or Tails".

> The options I can think of, off the top of my head, are:
> 
>       * torsocks
>       * tsocks
>       * usewithtor
>       * uwt (admittedly only because it was mentioned above)
>       * torify
>       * proxychains
> 
> torsocks seems to have already been forked or functionally duplicated.
> What's needed now is a merge, or at least very good documentation on
> when to use what.

Yes.

Related thread:
tor-talk] torsocks, usewithtor, torify questions - end the confusion!
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-July/024915.html

Unfortunately also not answered by Robert Hogan.

That would also be a task for the new maintainer.
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