this post was submitted on 16 May 2024

7 points (81.8% liked)

Monero

1564 readers

33 users here now

This is the lemmy community of Monero (XMR), a secure, private, untraceable currency that is open-source and freely available to all.

Wallets

Desktop (CLI, GUI)

Desktop (Feather)

Mac & Linux (Cake Wallet)

Android (Monerujo)

Android (MyMonero)

Android (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)

Android (Stack Wallet)

iOS (Cake Wallet) / (Monero.com)

iOS (Stack Wallet)

iOS (Edge Wallet)

Instance tags for discoverability:

Monero, XMR, crypto, cryptocurrency

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

7

Deanonymizing Transactions Originating from Monero Tor Hidden Service Nodes (dl.acm.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, This seems to depend on a TOR exploit (Onion Address Analysis Method Based on Multiple Timed Sync Response Messages), plus controlling a [not small] amount of TOR nodes and also Monero nodes both at the same time, plus sending these signals to correlate traffic. The examples it gave said like a 1000 malicious Tor nodes (which may very well be possible) and half of all TOR-using Monero nodes

I went through the paper pretty thoroughly, and definitely don't think the probability in the real world is as high as the theoretical percentages they give, but I'm not an expert.

Nevertheless, I sinerely hope the TOR and Monero teams both look at this, it could be serious. Especially for TOR.