[tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

Mike Perry mikeperry at torproject.org
Thu Oct 30 04:06:39 UTC 2014


Mike Perry:
> Thomas White:
> > I didn't realise my nodes didn't allow the bitcoin port. I'll get
> > right on it.
> 
> You may be interested in:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
> 
> It lists not only the official bitcoin ports, but also the Electrum soft
> wallet HTTPS and TLS ports, and several other common Internet services.
> 
> It's been a TODO of mine to make a torrc config option
> "ReducedExitPolicy 1" (or maybe "ExitPolicy reduced") that captures that
> list in the source code. This should not be a difficult patch, and would
> be a good intro for anyone looking to write their first Tor patch.

Btw, I filed https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13605 for
this.


-- 
Mike Perry
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