On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <[email protected]> wrote: > Is bitcoin software going to incorporate tor binaries within the > application standard application
There are no plans to do this currently. Maybe it makes sense, but I'm somewhat doubtful about that. > automatically create a Tor Hidden > Service on behalf of end-user? This would be nice— there would need to be some way (preferably over the socks port?) for bitcoin to request a hidden service be created and to discover the address of it. Unlike torchar we don't need access to the keys. It would need to have some way of returning the same address if called multiple times for the same destination service so that the hidden service address doesn't change with every restart. Although there would be some tricky security issues to work out with this functionality— e.g. what happens when some rogue java code you accidentally run starts creating hidden service backdoors to your machine? I thought this was already a proposed tor feature, but I'm not finding it right now. > Regarding the addressing, why not use directly the .onion address? It does use the onion addresses— they just need to be mapped into an IPv6 address in order to be carried by the existing bitcoin p2p protocol. The mapping is a bijection and externally to bitcoin it's identical to using the onion addresses. E.g. the command-line parameters deal with .onion addresses, the logs record .onion addresses, and .onion addresses are passed into tor. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
