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With Qubes + Whonix you can have a Monero wallet that is without networking and running on a virtually isolated system from the Monero daemon which has all of its traffic forced over Tor.
Qubes gives the flexibility to easily create separate VMs for different purposes. First you will create a Whonix workstation for the wallet with no networking. Next, another Whonix workstation for the daemon which will use your Whonix gateway as it's NetVM. For communication between the wallet and daemon you can make use of Qubes qrexec.
This is safer than other approaches which route the wallets rpc over a Tor hidden service, or that use physical isolation but still have networking to connect to the daemon. In this way you don't need any network connection on the wallet, you preserve resources of the Tor network, and there is less latency.
Using a Whonix workstation template, create two workstations as follows:
The first workstation will be used for your wallet, it will referred to as monero-wallet-ws
. You will have NetVM
set to none
.
The second workstation will be for the monerod
daemon, it will be referred to as monerod-ws
. You will have NetVM
set to the Whonix gateway sys-whonix
.
monerod-ws
:user@host:~$ curl -O "https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-linux-x64-v0.11.1.0.tar.bz2" -O "/it/downloads/hashes.txt"
user@host:~$ gpg --recv-keys BDA6BD7042B721C467A9759D7455C5E3C0CDCEB9
user@host:~$ gpg --verify hashes.txt
gpg: Signature made Wed 01 Nov 2017 10:01:41 AM UTC
gpg: using RSA key 0x55432DF31CCD4FCD
gpg: Good signature from "Riccardo Spagni <ric@spagni.net>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: BDA6 BD70 42B7 21C4 67A9 759D 7455 C5E3 C0CD CEB9
Subkey fingerprint: 94B7 38DD 3501 32F5 ACBE EA1D 5543 2DF3 1CCD 4FCD
user@host:~$ echo '6581506f8a030d8d50b38744ba7144f2765c9028d18d990beb316e13655ab248 monero-linux-x64-v0.11.1.0.tar.bz2' | shasum -c
monero-linux-x64-v0.11.1.0.tar.bz2: OK
user@host:~$ tar xf monero-linux-x64-v0.11.1.0.tar.bz2
user@host:~$ sudo cp monero-v0.11.1.0/monerod /usr/local/bin/
systemd
file.user@host:~$ sudo gedit /home/user/monerod.service
Paste the following contents:
[Unit]
Description=Monero Full Node
After=network.target
[Service]
User=user
Group=user
Type=forking
PIDFile=/home/user/.bitmonero/monerod.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/monerod --detach --data-dir=/home/user/.bitmonero \
--no-igd --pidfile=/home/user/.bitmonero/monerod.pid \
--log-file=/home/user/.bitmonero/bitmonero.log --p2p-bind-ip=127.0.0.1
Restart=always
PrivateTmp=true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
monero-wallet-cli
executable to the monero-wallet-ws
VM.user@host:~$ qvm-copy-to-vm monero-wallet-ws monero-v0.11.1.0/monero-wallet-cli
monerod
daemon run on startup by editing the file /rw/config/rc.local
.user@host:~$ sudo gedit /rw/config/rc.local
Add these lines to the bottom:
cp /home/user/monerod.service /lib/systemd/system/
systemctl start monerod.service
Make file executable.
user@host:~$ sudo chmod +x /rw/config/rc.local
user@host:~$ sudo mkdir /rw/usrlocal/etc/qubes-rpc
user@host:~$ sudo gedit /rw/usrlocal/etc/qubes-rpc/user.monerod
Add this line:
socat STDIO TCP:localhost:18081
monerod-ws
.monero-wallet-ws
:monero-wallet-cli
executable.user@host:~$ sudo mv QubesIncoming/monerod-ws/monero-wallet-cli /usr/local/bin/
/rw/config/rc.local
.user@host:~$ sudo gedit /rw/config/rc.local
Add the following line to the bottom:
socat TCP-LISTEN:18081,fork,bind=127.0.0.1 EXEC:"qrexec-client-vm monerod-ws user.monerod"
Make file executable.
user@host:~$ sudo chmod +x /rw/config/rc.local
monero-wallet-ws
.dom0
:/etc/qubes-rpc/policy/user.monerod
:[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo nano /etc/qubes-rpc/policy/user.monerod
Add the following line:
monero-wallet-ws monerod-ws allow