Anyone still using SOCKS4?

Author: Odinn Cyberguerrilla 2014-07-07 06:54:23
Published on: 2014-07-07T06:54:23+00:00

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Summary:

In a discussion about SOCKS4 and SOCKS4a, Odinn Cyberguerrilla raised the question of whether SOCKS4 was designed to prevent information leaks. However, SOCKS4a, which supports DNS lookups on the server, is not supported by bitcoin core. On the other hand, SOCKS5 can perform all the functions of SOCKS4 and SOCKS4a. Wladimir encouraged contributions to SOCKS4a support if anyone is interested.

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