[tor-bugs] Re: #523 [Tor-Torbutton]: New Identity Button

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#523: New Identity Button
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 Reporter:  mikeperry  |         Type:  enhancement  
   Status:  new        |     Priority:  major        
Milestone:  1.4        |    Component:  Tor-Torbutton
  Version:  1.1        |   Resolution:  None         
 Keywords:             |       Parent:               
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Old description:

> One of these days it might be nice to add a "New Identity" button to
> Torbutton to instruct vidalia or
> the control port itself to choose a new path, in addition to clearing Tor
> cache+cookies. This
> may or may not depend on a "Tor Status" check to verify that the tor
> process is in fact running.
> Unfortunately, there are lots of usability issues with control port auth,
> multiple confusing controls
> and statues, exactly which cookies get cleared, etc that need to be
> considered.
>

> [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: All]

New description:

 One of these days it might be nice to add a "New Identity" button to
 Torbutton to instruct vidalia or
 the control port itself to choose a new path, in addition to clearing Tor
 cache+cookies. This
 may or may not depend on a "Tor Status" check to verify that the tor
 process is in fact running.
 Unfortunately, there are lots of usability issues with control port auth,
 multiple confusing controls
 and statues, exactly which cookies get cleared, etc that need to be
 considered.


 [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: All]

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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Bug #1579 is a dup of this bug. Providing "New Identity" on a timer would
 give people a way to be safer from cookie and cache identifiers if they
 use Tor continuously, but would still like to have cookies and cache
 enabled. This would especially be handy if we could protect certain
 cookies from deletion from the timer, a-la #637.

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