Re: [Tails-dev] Switch to Privoxy?

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Autor: intrigeri
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Assunto: Re: [Tails-dev] Switch to Privoxy?
hi,

adrelanos wrote (02 Nov 2012 17:50:21 GMT) :
>> APT: a rough initial test was done, that added a tor+http shim in
> /usr/lib/apt/methods IIRC, to add torsocks in the loop. It worked fairly
> well, but one of the late live-build scripts insists on running APT,
> which fails in this configuration.


> Now that torsocks is unmaintained (see extra thread), I am not sure it
> is a good idea to rely on torsocks to torify apt.


I think torsocks is fine for this usecase on the short run, but I'm
happy to take the long term into account too. So, what do you suggest
us to use to torify APT, so that we can remove Polipo from Tails now,
that would be better than torsocks on the long run?

> Afaik torsocks has no IPv6 support, only an IPv6 leak bug.
> Tor developers are currently developing IPv6 support for Tor.
> One day you may want to support IPv6 in Tails?


I bet we will.