Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 10/28/14, s7r wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Seth, > > Totally agree about undermining decentralization by having to trust a > single provider. Nobody recommended that, the addresses were for > informative purpose only, to be used in parallel with other nodes run >

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seth, Totally agree about undermining decentralization by having to trust a single provider. Nobody recommended that, the addresses were for informative purpose only, to be used in parallel with other nodes run by other operators / organizations. No u

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread Seth David Schoen
s7r writes: > All use Bitcoin default port 8333. These servers are up all the time > and very fast. > > Hidden services are end-to-end encrypted so the risk of MITM between > nodes does not exist. Also, if you run bitcoin in such a way with > onlynet=tor enabled in config, nobody listening your w

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here are some Bitcoin reliable nodes sponsored by Thomas (TheCthulhu) accessible via Tor hidden services: h2vlpudzphzqxutd.onion sbow7bnje2f4gcvt.onion dioq2yg3l5ptgpge.onion All use Bitcoin default port 8333. These servers are up all the time and

[tor-talk] using bridges with dns name

2014-10-27 Thread Angel García
Here is my problem: The network administrator of my job search the firewall's (squid) log for anything strange, so when tor connects using a bridge, the firewall's log show: ... mail.google.com www.frootvpn.com 23.54.23.32 <- bridge's ip bits.wikimedia.org startpage.com ... I get the d

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't realise my nodes didn't allow the bitcoin port. I'll get right on it. Also, if anyone in the Tor community has spare capacity, you can also setup a full bitcoin node on the same server you use as an exit/relay/bridge and it doesn't take up a

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-27 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079v1.pdf > Could this situation be improved if people ran limited exit nodes that only > alloed the bitcoin p2p protocol to exit? I for one don't have enough There are about ten exit nodes that do only this

Re: [tor-talk] using UDPGW and tun2socks over Tor

2014-10-27 Thread grarpamp
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote: >> This means we can support SIP calling over Tor, video conference and >> streaming, among other applications... Tor as a client also needs support for inbound binds for some apps, at least at the single per port level when interacting wi

Re: [tor-talk] using UDPGW and tun2socks over Tor

2014-10-27 Thread grarpamp
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote: > Is there any reason we shouldn't consider supporting UDP over Tor with > Orbot, by tunneling the packets using the combination of badvpn's > tun2socks and udpgw ("udp gateway") feature? There's no reason raw IP itself (any/none of its numbe

Re: [tor-talk] recent firefox releases

2014-10-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Gigi Bigio wrote: > as far as I understand, recent Firefox releases do not support anymore >Vidalia and its related possibility to browse anonymously. Though the >"onion" button is still present on the top left corner, it will not work, >as you know. Vidal

[tor-talk] recent firefox releases

2014-10-27 Thread Gigi Bigio
registered user bigi...@cheapnet.it Dear Sirs, as far as I understand, recent Firefox releases do not support anymore Vidalia and its related possibility to browse anonymously. Though the "onion" button is still present on the top left corner, it will not work, as you know. The alternati