I want to understand the best torification tool to use, but it's really hard to
learn about what each tool is and how it is different and who is responsible
for which tool. Various places on torproject.org site talk about torify,
usewithtor, torsocks, etc.
First, this page says torsocks is installed when tor is installed but this is
NOT true, at least not from the yum repository that is run by torproject.org:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/SupportPrograms
The only thing I get is torify. Without tsocks or torsocks, torify doesn't even
make sense!
So I wind up on google code trying to understand about torsocks.
There is no documentation on the web explaining what/who/when/how usewithtor is
different than torsocks. It's quite confusing. The only place I found
something was the usewithtor manpage. That's nice, but this info should be on
the web.
However, the manpage for usewithtor says "usewithtor runs torsocks(1) with
the default configuration file, located at /usr/local/etc/torsocks.conf.
Running torsocks(1) directly means that no configuration file will be
used..." If you read the torsocks manpage, it says "If TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE is
not set, torsocks will attempt to read the configuration file at
/usr/local/etc/torsocks.conf"
So which manpage is correct? If the torsocks manpage is correct, then
usewithtor serves no purpose because it indicates its only purpose is to run
torsocks with that config file, right? So why not make sure torsocks works like
its manpage says it does and REMOVE usewithtor? End the confusion please!
Back to torify which comes with Tor itself, now I have all three wrapper
scripts installed. I don't know which to use. I wish there was just one because
they all do the same thing from a newb perspective.
If torify comes with Tor, is that the most reliable one to use? On the other
hand, Tor does NOT come with torsocks so if you install that you get the other
wrappers anyway. HELP!
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