Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Randolph D. rdohm...@gmail.com wrote: Secure P2P Email from Friend to Friend without relying on a central server. Key- / Repleo-Exchange. Full decentral Email-Network using the Echo Protocol. Store Email for Offline-Friends in the P2P Network. Chat and

[Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Bazyli Zygan
Hi everyone, We at Hive had plans to make our wallet proxy through Tor by default. When it became apparent that this was not presently possible because bitcoinj lacks SOCKS support, it opened a minor discussion suggesting that this is perhaps not advisable practice for SPV wallets in the first

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Mike Hearn
The TPM is a piece of secure* hardware that provides various cryptographic services to the host system. It is important to understand that it is not a crypto accelerator. It is a place to store keys and small pieces of data (like hashes, counters) where it's difficult for someone to extract them

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Can you explain this process for those of us not too familiar with TPM chips? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: As a testament to the seriousness with which Pond takes forward security, it can use the NVRAM in a TPM

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Mike Hearn
Various ideas are possible: * Use the Tor SOCKS proxy in such a way that it creates a guaranteed independent circuit to a different exit node each time you connect. This gets you back to the slightly stronger clearnet heuristic of if I saw a bunch of peers announce my tx, then it's probably

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: * Talk the Tor protocol directly and have the app explicitly pick its own diverse set of exit nodes, one per p2p connection. This is likely to be complicated. Last time I looked Tor doesn't provide any kind of library or API.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Bazyli Zygan
Apparently that won't help. That's just embeding the existing tor code and rerouting internal Cocoa internet communication via tors proxy. What guys need is bigger configurability in tor itself. I can understand that. It's doable tough. Gosh, why a day has only 24h? :) /b grabhive.com

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Thank you Peter. Does this advice apply equally to both full and SPV nodes? At this point I'm merely curious, since we don't have the option to run bitcoinj over Tor right now anyway. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Peter Todd wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:36:50PM +0200, Wendell wrote: Thank you Peter. Does this advice apply equally to both full and SPV nodes? At this point I'm merely curious, since we don't have the option to run bitcoinj over Tor right now anyway. Yes, although remember that in general SPV nodes

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [bitcoin-list] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Mike Hearn
TPMs have come as standard with nearly all computers (except Macs, doh) for a long time. They certainly don't cost $100. More like a few dollars at most. That's why they're so slow. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:43 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Mike Hearn