----- Forwarded message from mirimir <[email protected]> ----- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:12:42 +0000 From: mirimir <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tips for configuring and using Tor for anonymous Bitcoin usage? Message-ID: <[email protected]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Reply-To: [email protected]
On 10/03/2013 05:45 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm writing a book about the use of Bitcoin and anonymity. A fair > portion of the book will be dedicated to teaching people how to most > safely use Tor to facilitate anonymity with Bitcoin. Are there any > special tips that people have for configuring Tor or using Tor when > it comes to Bitcoin? I'll have tutorials online "soon" (not in my hands) that cover this in great detail. I recommend mixing through at least three different mixing services, using independent anonymous wallets. > Right now, I'm recommending the use of a LiveCD Linux distro > (Ubuntu) with TorBundle for Linux and the vanilla Bitcoin client for > Linux. A couple tips I'm already aware of are to disable JavaScript > before using (since NoScript currently defaults to being on :() and > to avoid downloading files through the web browser such as PDF > documents. I recommend using Whonix with the Multibit client. The vanilla Bitcoin client downloads the full blockchain, which is far too much for Tor. It's comparable to torrenting an 8 GB video. Multibit is a local client, under user control, but doesn't download the blockchain. It's the recommended default now. > In particular, I'm curious 1) if there needs to be special > configuration to ensure that all DNS request go through Tor, and 2) > whether I can configure the system not to send any internet message > except through the Tor proxy. As I understand Whonix, it's designed not to leak. But I defer to adrelanos for specifics. > Regards, Kristov -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5
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