[tor-bugs] #6937 [Tor Client]: SocksPipe or SocksSocket - an anonymous pipe to smoke network leakings bug out (of)

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#6937: SocksPipe or SocksSocket - an anonymous pipe to smoke network leakings bug
out (of)
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 Reporter:  ioerror                  |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Client               |        Version:  Tor: unspecified  
 Keywords:  security needs-proposal  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                           |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by ioerror):

 I'm not exactly sure of how to ensure that we have a known pipe name for
 all tor enabled applications... On Win32, we could have '\\.\pipe\tor-
 shim' and on GNU/Linux we could have '/tmp/tor-shim' - the main problem is
 of course that we can't actually ensure that we'd get those names.

 I wonder how Tor handles this for the control socket? Won't Unix Domain
 Sockets have similar problems?

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