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Recent DNS and privacy #217

Open creativecuriosity opened 8 years ago

creativecuriosity commented 8 years ago

Does the recent conversion to utilizing DNS seeds have any implications to privacy for those users who choose to utilize socks5 proxies, such as Tor?

l0rdicon commented 8 years ago

no more then any other method of peer discovery. Its just providing peer ip addresses over DNS.. the peers still had to have been broadcasting their ip's so their expectation of privacy is already gone.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, creativecuriosity <notifications@github.com

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Does the recent conversion to utilizing DNS seeds have any implications to privacy for those users who choose to utilize socks5 proxies, such as Tor?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/issues/217.

dooglus commented 8 years ago

I guess she's asking about the privacy of the peer using DNS to receive the peer list, not the peers on the list.

If I'm running a node behind Tor or some other proxy, can the person providing the DNS service see my real IP address when I use his service? I don't know enough about how DNS works to answer that, but it seems plausible that they can.

creativecuriosity commented 8 years ago

There was some talk concerning Bitcoin XT and privacy issues surrounding the Tor "blacklist" that was included as a rider along-side the block size patch. I also remember a similar conversation some time ago concerning listen=0 and other DDoS related issues. Just got me thinking; thought it was import to broach the topic.