[Tails-dev] Update Electrum documentation for Tails 1.8 upgrade to version 2.5.4

2015-11-14 Thread Michael English
Please see https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9713 for context. Recommend users to manually select a trusted .onion server to protect against DoS after note about SPV vulnerability. Make a note that Electrum uses mBTC as the default base unit. 1 mBTC = 0.001 BTC. It can be changed in preferences

[Tails-dev] Upgrade Tails Bitcoin donation address

2015-11-14 Thread Michael English
Electrum version 2.0 and higher supports the creation of multi-signature wallet types. I recommend that Tails upgrade their Bitcoin donation address to a multi-signature address for increased security and redundancy. A multi-signature address requires m of n signatures from separate wallets in orde

Re: [Tails-dev] Testing the ISO Verification Extension

2015-11-14 Thread Giorgio Maone
Status update as of latest commit (extension version 0.2.1) follows. On 12/11/2015 17:38, sajolida wrote: > 2. The extension is great because it preserves its state even if you > close the tab. You can open it again and the result of the verification > is still there. Still, I think we should rese

[Tails-dev] Tor 0.2.7.5 will come out soon

2015-11-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all. Some time in the next 2-5 days, I'll be calling the Tor 0.2.7 release stable. I don't currently expect that tor 0.2.7.5 will have any changes since 0.2.7.4-rc -- the only change will be that the release will be called stable. I'll let you know if that changes. (You are receiving this me

[Tails-dev] Easy verification steps for OS X

2015-11-14 Thread steve
Dear all, I am not signed up to this mailing list, so use cc: for any relevant replies. The current verification steps for OS X users are, to put things mildly, broken. Current procedure: Users would follow this link: https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html#download.verify-the-iso-image-u