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Resource type: Proceedings Article DOI: 10.1145/3589335.3651487 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9798400701726 BibTeX citation key: Shi2024 View all bibliographic details |
Categories: Monero-focused Keywords: cryptocurrency, Monero, tor network, transaction deanonymization Creators: Ge, Lan, Li, Lin, Peng, Shi Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery Collection: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 |
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Abstract |
Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that incorporates anonymity networks (such as Tor and I2P) and deploys the Dandelion++ protocol to prevent malicious attackers from linking transactions with their source IPs. However, this paper highlights a vulnerability in Monero's integration of the Tor network, which allows an attacker to successfully deanonymize transactions originating from Monero Tor hidden service nodes at the network-layer level. 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. Ultimately, we correlate transactions and IPs of Monero Tor hidden service nodes. Through experimentation on the Monero testnet, we provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of our approach in successfully deanonymizing transactions originating from Monero Tor hidden service nodes.
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https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20240516#c378118 vtnerd said "we can definitely improve the time_sync request message which is leaking the remote tor address in certain situations. Also, randomly select whether a tx is related over tor another time instead of always forwarding over clearnet." More discussion at https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20240517
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