Re: [Tails-dev] [tor-talk] Please review Tails stream isolat…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] [tor-talk] Please review Tails stream isolation plans
Hi,

Thank you for having had a look.

adrelanos wrote (28 Aug 2012 23:53:01 GMT) :
>> Consider Pidgin with several accounts configured for different
>> identities. If you connect with all of the accounts at the same
>> time, they'll all get the same circuit, so the identities can be
>> correlated. While Tails does not formally support using multiple
>> contextual identities at the same time, Pidgin generally opens very
>> few network connections, so the performance impact of using
>> IsolateDestAddr should be small. Given how cheap it is, it looks
>> like it is worth having Pidgin use a (not necessarily dedicated)
>> SocksPort that has IsolateDestAddr and IsolateDestPort enabled.


> True. Difficult to document.


I don't think we want to document that at all: documenting it would
look like we support using multiple contextual identities at the same
time, while we don't.

> I initially proposed the feature for Tails


Well, I think Jacob did (in 2011).

> and now I am considering your improvements for aos. Nice!


I'm glad this may be useful for aos :)

Cheers,
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