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
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Odinn Cyberguerrilla
odinn.cyberguerri...@riseup.net wrote:
Wait, I thought SOCKS4 was supposed to help somehow in terms of prevention
of leaking of information?
SOCKS4a (unlike SOCKS4) supports doing DNS lookups on the server, but
it is not supported by bitcoin
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Odinn Cyberguerrilla
odinn.cyberguerri...@riseup.net wrote:
Wait, I thought SOCKS4 was supposed to help somehow in terms of
prevention
of leaking of information?
SOCKS4a (unlike SOCKS4) supports doing DNS lookups on the server, but
it is not supported by
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
*watches the tumble weed blow by*
I think it's pretty safe to remove it...
On 4 July 2014 08:15, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote:
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
Hello all,
Is anyone using a SOCKS4-only proxy with Bitcoin Core? SOCKS5 was
introduced in 1996, so there is hardly an excuse to not support it.
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
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