Re: [Tails-dev] Prioritize onion servers in Electrum

Hello Michael,

Fixed. We have 2.5.4-2 in unstable now (includes the patch), which
will transition to testing on 09.12.2015 - hope that's in time.

prefnet=tor will take some time and involve many things, so we
shouldn't count on it just yet. First, there are very few .onion
Electrum servers. We need at least one or two .onion servers hardcoded
so users can use them for 'bootstrap' (getting information about other
servers).

There's no big issue if users connect to clearnet Electrum servers via
Tor for the time being, except slight performance issues (sometimes it
takes little longer to connect, because servers are behind DoS
mitigation services which filter Tor, etc.).


On 12/4/2015 5:12 PM, Michael English wrote:
> s7r,
>
> Since we will probably have to wait for at least one more release
> of Electrum to include the synchronization fix, do you think that
> you could also include the option prefnet=tor to prioritize onion
> servers over normal servers? Using the native protocol for Tor
> would help make Electrum in Tails more resistant against attack.
>
> I am waiting on writing documentation until we make progress on
> these two problems with the Electrum client. Then, I will reply to
> your recent email with my proposal for the Electrum Tails
> documentation.
>
> Cheers, Michael English
>