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Subject: [tor-talk] should windows apps leave tor running
From: qubenix <qubenix () riseup ! net>
Date: 2018-11-12 8:01:00
Message-ID: fa1d3343-b7d6-bc41-81d2-1afc38f404fb () riseup ! net
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Hi all! :)
I would love to be enlightened about a Windows applications best
practice in regards to tor.exe. First, a little background.
There's a Bitcoin wallet, Wasabi[1], that is privacy and security
focused. The wallet allows users to do coinjoin transactions with other
random users, coordination is done on a central server via an onion.
Currently the lead dev of the project, nopara73, is under the impression
that it is a good idea to leave tor.exe running on Windows users
computers even after the wallet is closed[2]. He feels this will help to
prevent some types of timing/correlation attacks.
I installed a Windows7 VM and installed TBB, and I see that tor.exe is
killed with the browser. Also I read the best practices for Tor friendly
apps[3], where it says to start tor with each process.
What is the professional opinion on this?
Thank you for reading.
[1] https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/
[2] https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/issues/777
[3]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Tor_friendly_applications_best_practices
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