Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I would like to arrange for package.el
>> to always connect to ELPA across the Tor network.
>> But it is 4600 lines of code and I would rather not have to read it all.
>>
>> Can someone tell me where to find the code that actually
>> communicates with the ELPA repos?  Where is the best place
>> to make that change?
>
> I found these macros by searching for the string "(url":
>
>     package--with-response-buffer-1
>     package--with-work-buffer
>
> I don't know if you want this to affect package-vc, but I guess a new
> option would be even more useful if it could cover that too.

IIRC all HTTP requests by package-vc go through these functions as well,
so if they were to be made Tor-compatible and vc-tor was set, then this
/could/ be safe, setting aside issues such as detailed fingerprinting.

-- 
Philip Kaludercic