On 6 March 2018 at 17:54, Michael Jonker <michael@openpoint.ie> wrote:

2) Bisq 's infrastructural backbone runs as a P2P network over TOR network. Clients talk to each other and there are various hidden services providing network resources.

At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, I tried writing up suggestions for hardening hidden services to preserve their anonymity:

https://github.com/alecmuffett/the-onion-diaries/blob/master/basic-production-onion-server.md

...although the above was written long before I got seriously into EOTK, and into the amazing benefits of using Unix-domain sockets to connect my webservers and tor-daemons.

Aside: the benefits of Unix-domain sockets include:

- massively increased resistance to socket-table-filling denial-of-onion-service attacks, and faster recovery times

- (probably) lower latency

- reduced (but not eliminated) risk of IP metadata leakage of internet address, etc, because less reliance on network addresses

But between *that* document, and some of the tech in EOTK, there may be some useful hardening tips for you.

- alec

http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm