[tor-talk] Tor over SSH (torsocks) (?)

[James Murphy]

On 02/15/2015 03:22 PM, blobby at openmailbox.org wrote:
> I want to login to my VPS over SSH.
> 
> Is torsocks still a safe way to do this? A lot of the
> documentation (such as it is) is several years old.
> 
> 

I would also like to know this. SSH hidden service setup and use are
easy with torsocks.

/etc/tor/torrc

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/ssh_service/
HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22

Then

torsocks ssh user at xxx.onion

works like a charm.

Can anyone comment on security of torsocks?