Deanonymizing Transactions Originating from Monero Tor Hidden Service Nodes | Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024
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Academic paper from last month’s International World Wide Web Conference for people who enjoy reading such things. :-)

*"Our approach involves injecting malicious Monero Tor hidden service nodes into the Monero P2P network to correlate the onion addresses of incoming Monero Tor hidden service peers with their originating transactions.

And by sending a signal watermark embedded with the onion address to the Tor circuit, we establish a correlation between the onion address and IP address of a Monero Tor hidden service node."*

  •  hfondmanager   ( @hfondmanager@monero.town ) 
    5•26 days ago

    This chinese paper boils down to the common psychopathic wet dream: an adversary with unlimited resources will control every aspect of life in a totalitarian fashion. It’s a fluff: collecting IPs does not “de-anon” any monero tx.

    Don’t be intimidated, this has never materialzed in the last 10000 yrs. In fact, China has legalized (illegal) mining (metal) coins after its paper currency collapsed (in the 15th century). It can happen again.

    They don’t like us — and we don’t like them. This aggression against humanity will not stand.

  •  boldsuck   ( @boldsuck@scribe.disroot.org ) 
    1•27 days ago

    And by sending a signal watermark embedded with the onion address to the Tor circuit, we establish a correlation between the onion address and IP address of a Monero Tor hidden service node

    And what does that achieve? He can also easily find my Monero node IP’s + IPv6’s + onion addresses in a Github issue and does not need research wodoo. ;-) He cannot see who connects his wallet there via Tor.