torsocks | Library to torify application - NOTE : upstream | Router library

torsocks is a C library typically used in Networking, Router applications. torsocks has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However torsocks has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Torsocks allows you to use most applications in a safe way with Tor. It ensures that DNS requests are handled safely and explicitly rejects any traffic other than TCP from the application you're using. Torsocks is an ELF shared library that is loaded before all others. The library overrides every needed Internet communication libc function calls such as connect(2) or gethostbyname(3). BE ADVISE: It uses the LD_PRELOAD mechanism (man ld.so.8) which means that if the application is not using the libc or for instance uses raw syscalls, torsocks will be useless and the traffic will not go through Tor. This process is transparent to the user and if torsocks detects any communication that can't go through the Tor network such as UDP traffic, for instance, the connection is denied. If, for any reason, there is no way for torsocks to provide the Tor anonymity guarantee to your application, torsocks will force the application to quit and stop everything.