From: "Odinn Cyberguerrilla" <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup•net>
To: "Wladimir" <laanwj@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Anyone still using SOCKS4?
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 23:34:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f55608991d5377117ecf1728cd8db0c.squirrel@fruiteater.riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJAei15doCg-h2BK6tEvfwy5m5YHPhg_+8b=G4ew41Mqjw@mail.gmail.com>
Wait, I thought SOCKS4 was supposed to help somehow in terms of prevention
of leaking of information?
Or maybe I am misremembering. Here's what I'm thinking of...
1) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Preventing_Tor_DNS_Leaks
2) More regarding TOR,
"
I keep seeing these warnings about SOCKS and DNS information leaks. Should
I worry?
The warning is:
Your application (using socks5 on port %d) is giving Tor only an IP
address. Applications that do DNS resolves themselves may leak
information. Consider using Socks4A (e.g. via Polipo or socat) instead.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WarningsAboutSOCKSandDNSInformationLeaks
I'm not sure that means I'm screaming fire or anything, but isn't there
some good reason for SOCKS4 and SOCKS4A?
Or maybe another way to ask this is: Looking at an example in which
someone is running Tor, Privoxy, I2P, and FoxyProxy together while running
Bitcoin Core, would there be a problem with having a setting for SOCKS4A
for traffic in such a setup given the changes proposed to remove SOCKS4 as
suggested in bitcoin-development?
Probably there is just a simple answer to that last question, like "no."
But I thought I'd ask.
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote:
>
>> If no one screams fire, we plan on removing support for it in the next
>> major release, for two reasons:
>>
>> - It would remove some crufty, hardly tested code paths
>>
>> - SOCKS5 offers better privacy as it allows DNS redirection
>
> Another one:
>
> - SOCKS5 supports IPv6
>
> Last call...
>
> Wladimir
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-11 15:39 Wladimir
2014-07-04 7:15 ` Wladimir
2014-07-04 7:28 ` Drak
2014-07-07 6:34 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla [this message]
2014-07-07 6:47 ` Wladimir
2014-07-07 6:54 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
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