Please, be aware that using a remote daemon compromises your privacy, as it leaks your transactions data. Someone in the middle sniffing your connection would be able to take a look at it, as well as the people operating the remote daemon. So basically you are trusting the person running the daemon and that no one is snooping your connection .
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smooth from
https://forum.monero.cc/4/academic-and-technical/10/remote-monero-deamon :
I think it is possible to mostly fix this model of light wallet by connecting to two nodes getting mixins from both. Then randomly choose have the mixins from each. Neither will be able to tell which is your coin source.
Snooping of transactions doesn't really matter -- they are public anyway --although snooping of the mixins could matter, and snooping of your IP could matter. Both issue can be largely fixed (granted not NSA-proof) by connecting to the nodes over Tor. A simple proxy setup should work.
Even over Tor, wouldn't it leak destination addresses and transactions amounts?
EDIT: Oh, OK, if the node is running as an .onion service then the channel would be secure, but would the node be able to get addresses and amounts?
No, the node sees the same transaction everyone else sees (e.g. by looking on chainexplorer.com, or the blockchain itself). That by itself doesn't include anything particularly useful (and can't).
With Tor the node could not correlate this with an IP address, which would be the only extra information it has if the mixins are blinded using multiple nodes as I described. The nodes would have to collude to identify the real source of the transaction.
Im the operator of public open node on which jwinterm based the wallet.
Also known as HegemoOn on irc.
For the moment there is only one instance running publicly, but if the wallet is widely adopted, i must run a reliable multiple instances service.
For the moment also, this service is sponsored only by my own pocket, and cost me more than what my pool generate.
So basically, new feature, better security, and more reliability is also an economical problem.
There is a donation button in this wallet, i really encourage peoples to use it, jwinterm and I need it to improve the code, and the service.
Note also that i don't trust TOR, as far as it is backed by US agency
