Hansen Jay: >> Torify and tsocks are outdated. Don't bother with it. > > OK, but why does Tor deliver torify if that's the case?
It's only kept for compatibility reasons. >>> 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! >>> >> Just use usewithtor. >> And to find out where torsocks.conf is, use whereis torsocks.conf > > But what's the use of usewithtor if the torsocks manpage is correct? (see my > question above) (my torsocks.conf is exactly where those manpages say it is) usewithtor is a script/wrapper and easier to use. torsocks is the actual binary and has different features (see man torsocks). torsocks is dead, needs a new maintainer and need to be imported to torproject.org. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6155 There are critical issues: https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/list IPv6 traffic leak: https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=37 And there is an annoying bug with a patch available which does due to inactivity not get merged: https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=3 I mailed Robert Hogan perhaps a month ago or so. He told me he wants to keep up with the bugs but after that no more replies. There are some patches I'd like myself to get merged: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks Don't expect much progress. Looks like tpo moves away from torsocks / general torification, focuses on censorship circumvention and being an application project with Tor Browser Bundle, Tor IM Bundle, TorBirdy etc. Which might not be the worst decision due to protocol leaks and usability. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
