Hi Tails,
I'm a crypto-currency privacy and security researcher and educator. I
highly prefer Tails as a means to connect to the Tor network and protect
against side-channel attacks on financial privacy. Unfortunately, it's
been a struggle for me recently to encourage compatibility amongst
developers of crypto-currency clients (chiefly, the reference Bitcoin
client, Bitcoin Core) due to some of the old libraries in use with Tails.
The results of my efforts are partially documented here [1].
Right now the Bitcoin Core team is examining how best to achieve
compatibility with Tails. Bitcoin Core uses the Qt library for graphical
interfaces, but their build compatibility efforts have been focused on
Qt versions 4.7 and 4.8, while Tails is still stuck with Qt 4.6 (last
updated in 2010, I believe!). If I understand correctly, this is because
Tails is still built off of Debian Squeeze and has not yet migrated to
Debian Wheezy, which comes with Qt 4.8.
I know that the Tails team is working on migration to Wheezy. Are there
any projected dates for when this might take place?
Regardless of the outcome of Tails development, I will continue to push
crypto-currency clients to produce binaries compatible with Tails, but
updating some of those old libraries would make things a lot easier. A
growing number of people around the world are using crypto-currencies to
enhance their financial privacy as much as possible, and so I think it
is crucial that a privacy-centric tool should work with that development
community. I'd love to see at least one Bitcoin client integrated into
Tails, as well.
Thanks for your hard work,
Kristov Atlas
http://anonymousbitcoinbook.com
[1]:
http://blog.anonymousbitcoinbook.com/bitcoin-client-and-tails-compatibility-tracker/
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