#30558: Namecoin support for onion sites in Tor Browser
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Reporter: arthuredelstein | Owner: JeremyRand
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: TorBrowserTesm201911R | Actual Points:
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Comment (by JeremyRand):
> 2 of the public ElectrumX Namecoin servers are currently down for
maintenance. Since Namecoin connects to multiple servers simultaneously to
improve performance, the performance of this patch will be degraded until
those servers come back online. It still works fine and isn't particularly
annoying, but there *will* be some higher-than-typical latency while we're
waiting for those servers to come back online. (It would be awesome if the
Tor community decides to set up some additional ElectrumX Namecoin
servers.)
1 of those 2 servers has completed maintenance and is back online as of
yesterday, so that should yield a performance bump for anyone testing
these patches.
On another note: in the hypothetical event that the patches in this ticket
pass review and are merged, my recommendation would be to time the merge
to coincide with a blogpost, so that users of the Nightly builds are
informed of what the changes are. Otherwise, there might be unnecessary
confusion by users who observe a bunch of Namecoin code being merged to
tor-browser-build (or who observe its presence in the Nightly binaries)
and aren't sure what the scope of it is (e.g. it's important that users
know that the code is disabled by default, so that they don't think
they're being exposed to new attack surface without their opt-in consent).
I'm happy to contribute to such a blogpost if/when we reach the point
where it's relevant. Of course, if you strongly prefer to merge without a
blogpost and worry about doing a blogpost later, you're welcome to do so.
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