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Ethereum Wallet Security Considerations and How to use ETH over Tor in Whonix.

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ETH vs Tor generally

Apparently the ETH developers are not prioritizing anonymity or Tor-anything even though it's supposedly uncensorable smart contracts.

Chaos issue tracker with nonsense lazy stale-bot that is closing issues which aren't fixed:

• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/1855
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/17686

A full node directly over Tor is difficult due to node discovery because Tor does not support UDP. Quote: How To Sync an Ethereum Node via Tor:

It’s important to do this right — in this step you select nodes you trust. If you get tricked into adding mostly compromised nodes, your Ethereum client can be manipulated into following a fake chain.

https://ethernodes.org/tor-seed-nodes

As a workaround Tunnel UDP over Tor might be used in theory but is Unsupported if that would be fast and reliable enough to download 1 TB (speak 1000 GB) and counting of blockchain data over Tor.

Full Node Appliances

There are ETH full node ready-made box one can buy. Maybe easier for clearnet users. Difficult if anonymity is desired. Any anonymity features wouldn't have Whonix leak-proof robustness since for them it would be a gimmick and not project focus.

More Information

• Introduction: Whonix Documentation Introduction, User Expectations, Footnotes and References, User Expectations - What Documentation Is and What It Is Not
• Whonix is based on Kicksecure^™: Whonix inherits many features and principles from Kicksecure.
• Kicksecure is based on Debian: Kicksecure builds upon the stability of Debian.
• Inheritance: Therefore, Whonix is also based on Debian.
• Debian is GNU/Linux-based: Debian primarily uses the GNU/Linux as its foundation.
• Shared documentation benefits: Because one distribution is based on another:
  • Inherited documentation: Little specific documentation is required for each layer.
  • Shared principles: Features and principles often remain consistent across forks. Users can often follow the same instructions for both Whonix and Kicksecure.
• Keep using Whonix: This does not mean the user should switch to Kicksecure.
• Where to apply the instructions: The instructions should be applied inside Whonix.
• Wiki editors notice: This box is wiki template upstream_wiki. (Pages that link to it.)
• Comparison: Whonix versus Kicksecure
• Documentation compatibility: Since Whonix is based on Kicksecure, the user can follow these instructions for Ethereum . Apply the instructions inside Whonix, not Kicksecure.

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