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 <laa...@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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community > Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
