What settings would you suggest to use Armory while bitcoin-qt is running through Tor? I don't mind trying out your idea's, just want to make sure we find a way that works.
Btw, regardless of what we say here, I would not interpret that as official advice or in any way guaranteeing ... anything. I bring this up because many people use Bitcoin in ways where privacy is equivalent to their personal security (either in less-free states, or for doing questionably legal things).
I suspect that the strong privacy protections of Tor probably require both the user
and the developer to be careful. Unfortunately, I have spent no time learning about Tor, or spent any time figuring out how to make sure it doesn't leak information. As such, I would not rely on it in this way unless you have only a casual necessity for privacy.
I would be happy to entertain someone who
really understands Tor, to be able to review what Armory does, and make sure it doesn't do things that leak information. For instance, we have periodic announcement checks, and check for internet connection on startup by pinging google and microsoft.com. Both of these can be disabled -- but I suspect there may be other things that I don't realize leak information, even when the user has been careful.
