Michael English: > Sajolida, please forward this message to s7r. Done.
> s7r, > > If you do not have any specific ideas for updating the Electrum > documentation, I volunteer to take the lead. Otherwise, you can draft an > updated version of the documentation and I can update where necessary. > The goal is to document Electrum specifically for Tails and not > duplicate the existing Electrum wiki. Thanks for the offer. > Most of the updates like wallet format happen automatically in the > background, so they do not need to be documented. I only recommend > making two additions. > > The most obvious change to the user when updating Electrum versions is > that the default base unit changes which can be confusing. No, I do not > think that we should manually change the default base unit with a config > file. That decision should be made upstream. However, users should be > aware that the appearance of their Bitcoin balances changes especially > when sending Bitcoins. If I understand correctly, the main issue here is about the *change* (and not about the behavior itself), then this should be mentioned most of all in the release notes. If you think that the behavior itself might be confusing, then I guess that this should be solved upstream (in their documentation or the software directly). > DoS refers to the SPV vulnerability of servers withholding information > from their clients leading to an incorrect balance. Connecting to a > trusted .onion server protects against DoS. Yes, it is not a bug, but it > is a well-known limitation of SPV that is specifically relevant for Tor > users. Pleas read “Bitcoin over Tor is not a good idea” > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079.pdf . That's what I thought. Thanks for the clarification. I'm not a Bitcoin user myself but we discussed this back when we added Electrum to Tails. >> Thanks for the input. I'd like to see whoever is working on the update >> to 2.5.4 propose patches to the current documentation [1]. Then I don't >> mind editing and polishing it but I won't have time to do the >> investigation part myself. So thanks for starting it. >> >> - How would people "manually select a trusted .onion server"? >> - Where can people find "a trusted .onion server"? >> - How should our current warning about SPV be adapted? ^ You're not answering this. I'm also wondering whether we should instead configure Electrum in Tails to connect to the existing onion servers automatically instead. So: - Would it be possible to configure Electrum in Tails to use the existing onion servers on top of the usual servers? instead of the usual servers? - In that case, do we need to trust them all? - What happens if some of them go down? _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
