Re: [Tails-dev] I love TOR! Suggestion for tails...

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Author: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] I love TOR! Suggestion for tails...
lovetor@???:
> Hi Tails/Tor Team,
> Thank you for all the hard work you and your associates put into Tor,
> words cannot explain how much I appreciate the spirit and minds behind
> this. Truely revolutionary.
>
> My suggestion is for Tails. I tried loading an application, Electrum
> (thin Client for Bitcoin), but the application won't route through TOR
> with Tails. I can proxychain Electrum or whatever other program I want
> to run through TOR on my Ubuntu machine.
>
> My suggestion would be to add proxychain in the suite as an option. So
> that other applications that may have trouble connecting can connect
> right away through this option.
>
> I don't know how feasable this is or if you guys have explicitly decided
> not to use proxy chain for whatever reason.


Hi,

We've already been asked to provide a bitcoin client in Tails [1]. Until
now we were blocked by the persistence issue but this is solved since
Tails 0.11.

[1] https://tails.boum.org/todo/include_bitcoin/

Now we would need to do a benchmarking and audit possible bitcoin
clients. But this hasn't been done so far. Any help on this task would
be welcome. I think there are no graphical bitcoin client in Debian so
Electrum might well be a candidate.

For a page on the Bitcoin wiki [2], it seems like you can configure
bitcoind to go through Tor using the 'proxy' parameter. I guess that
would not require proxychains.

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor

But remember that bitcoin is not officially supported in Tails and thus
comes with no guarantee whatsoever.

> Also, I know this has been mentioned before. A browser that is capable
> of connecting non-tor, for internet cafe or web authentication pages. Oh
> and X-Chat with SASL would be sweet.


You're lucky: that should be ready for the next release [3].

[3] https://tails.boum.org/todo/add_support_for_free_wifi_hotspots/

> I love that tails lets me use truecrypt tho, better than liberte in that
> respect.
>
> Thanks again, can't wait to see how things develope!


See you,