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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Decline in listening hosts
by
EhVedadoOAnonimato
on 30/05/2012, 12:20:21 UTC
I'm sorry, but how do you run a BTC client behind Tor? My Tor installation comes with a bundled browser, and from what I gather the only communications being scrambled are the ones the Tor browser makes... Am I wrong?

How would one (easily  Tongue) make MultiBit "speak" through Tor?

If your installation is working, you probably have a Tor-proxy running as a service in the background. By default, Tor SOCKS port is 9050, so normally all you have to do is configure your client to use as SOCKS proxy "localhost:9050".
Attention though: it's important that your client doesn't leak your identity through the communication, or by opening a listening port. Satoshi's client is designed to support Tor, so the devs take the necessary care for it not to happen. I suppose MultiBit's developers do the same, but you'd better ask them to be sure. (btw, that's why the tor people release a browser bundle, to make sure the browser does not leak your identity)