Stream Isolation for Monero

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Hello,

While I using Monero, I had a few questions. I use Whonix in VirtualBox.

  1. Do I understand correctly, in order to make Stream Isolation for several instants of Monero running simultaneously, I have to execute this command “torsocks /file path/monero-wallet-gui”?

  2. If everything is correct in the 1st point, then next I noticed an interesting thing. When I run Monero in normal mode, most of the traffic goes through the eth0 interface, but if I use the command from point 1, then most of the traffic starts going through the lo interface. Is this normal?

  3. I would like to understand if it makes any sense at all to use Stream Isolation for different instants of Monero. Is it advisable?

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Unknown. Not researched. Undocumented. Untested.

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This is a difficult question. If it was simple to stream isolate an application, which means to reliably without exception make it use Tor, there would be less need for Whonix’s split-design with Whonix-Gateway and Whonix-Workstation.

Elaborated here:
How to mitigate identity correlation

Finding up to date instructions for torification is difficult because developing instructions for torification itself is a difficult process.
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Actually a good sign because Monero is then forced by torsocks to talk to a local Tor SocksPort. (That SocksPort is redirected to Whonix-Gateway thanks to https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/anon-ws-disable-stacked-tor.)

If there is no other traffic seen except to localhost, could be a sign that most if not all traffic is going to the local SocksPort and thereby effectively stream isolated.

Yes.

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As usual thanks a lot for your answer!