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// See LICENSE for licensing information
// This is an asciidoc file used to generate the manpage/html reference.
// Learn asciidoc on http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html
+:man source: Tor
+:man manual: Tor Manual
torify(1)
=========
-Peter Palfrader
-Jacob Appelbaum
NAME
----
-torify - wrapper for torsocks or tsocks and tor
+torify - wrapper for torsocks and tor
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -18,33 +18,25 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
**torify** is a simple wrapper that attempts to find the best underlying Tor
-wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks or tsocks with a tor specific
+wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks with a tor specific
configuration file. +
torsocks is an improved wrapper that explicitly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS
lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections. +
-tsocks itself is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application that
-you would like to run socksified. +
-
Please note that since both method use LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied to
suid binaries.
WARNING
-------
-You should also be aware that the way tsocks currently works only TCP
-connections are socksified. Be aware that this will in most circumstances not
-include hostname lookups which would still be routed through your normal system
-resolver to your usual resolving nameservers. The **tor-resolve**(1) tool can be
-useful as a workaround in some cases. The Tor FAQ at
-https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ might have further
-information on this subject. +
-
When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. +
Both will leak ICMP data.
SEE ALSO
--------
-**tor**(1), **tor-resolve**(1), **torsocks**(1), **tsocks**(1),
-**tsocks.conf**(5).
+**tor**(1), **tor-resolve**(1), **torsocks**(1)
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+Peter Palfrader and Jacob Appelbaum wrote this manual.