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 -- qubenix CODE PGP: FE7454228594B4DDD034CE73A95D4D197E922B20 EMAIL PGP: 96096E4CA0870F1C5BAF7DD909D159E1241F9C54 IRC OTR: DFD1DA35 D74E775B 3E3DADB1 226282EE FB711765 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk