torsocks VS proxychains

Compare torsocks vs proxychains and see what are their differences.

torsocks

Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git (by dgoulet)

proxychains

proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP. (by haad)
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torsocks proxychains
563 19
498 6,033
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0.0 7.0
about 2 years ago 4 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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torsocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of torsocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.

proxychains

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing torsocks and proxychains you can also consider the following projects:

docker-tor - A docker image for deploying tor with Docker and/or Kubernetes

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks

duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

Tor - Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.)

tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery

nipe - An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

linux-cli-community - Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.

impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.

loki-network - Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.

ansible-squid - Ansible Squid role