{"id":20402,"date":"2019-03-26T17:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe79000d2697"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:53:13","slug":"samourai-wallet-adds-tor-integration-privacy-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/samourai-wallet-adds-tor-integration-privacy-push","title":{"rendered":"Samourai Wallet Adds Tor Integration in Privacy Push"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samourai Wallet announced<\/a> this month that its latest update supports Tor<\/a> integration, offering additional privacy for users.<\/p>\n

What Does Tor Integration Enable?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>, Samourai\u2019s lead developer, who is known simply as \u201cTD,\u201d gave a rundown of the Tor integration. He explained that using the Tor integration before creating a new wallet can shield a user\u2019s identity beyond the fact that they are not required to provide any personal information. With Tor, Samourai\u2019s servers will not be able to see a user\u2019s IP address when they connect to the API, only their Bitcoin addresses, thus protecting the one piece of information that could tie their wallet to their real-world identity.<\/p>\n

He also noted that Tor-enabled connectivity paves the way for Samourai\u2019s forthcoming Whirlpool mixing services and full-node Dojo offering, two more privacy-enhancing features.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur users have been requesting tighter Tor integration for some time,\u201d TD explained. \u201cIt was a prerequisite for rolling out Whirlpool and Dojo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whirlpool is Samourai\u2019s implementation of ZeroLink<\/a>, a coin-mixing protocol that has been anticipated since 2017<\/a>. ZeroLink\u2019s protocol demands the use of Tor, enabling Whirlpool to break chain analysis between incoming and outgoing coins. This shuffling helps to ensure privacy and further secure anonymity of the origin source of an outgoing transaction.<\/p>\n

Samourai\u2019s wallet-specific full node, Dojo, has been tailor-made to run over a Tor-only connection. This further establishes privacy, as the personal Dojo will include backend APIs that allow the Samourai Wallet to connect to the Dojo directly, bypassing the company\u2019s own servers. The intent is to provide greater security and verification measures for users. The Samourai website claims that the full-node Dojo will sport an easy-to-use interface.<\/p>\n

Samourai has also planned for a directory of PayNyms, a feature that provides users with stealth addresses to send transactions anonymously between other Samourai Wallet users.<\/p>\n

Tor Has Its Issues<\/strong><\/h3>\n

TD acknowledged that Tor integration could make for a slower network than others under certain conditions, though he suggested that \u201cTor users [would] readily accept that tradeoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other concerns relating to the Tor network might include the fact that it is blocked in certain locations and\/or by certain internet service providers.<\/p>\n

Regardless of its limitations, the privacy potential makes Tor essential to Samourai Wallet\u2019s near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cConnectivity over Tor is now an integral part of Samourai Wallet and will be maintained in an important position within our code base as we move forward,\u201d TD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samourai Wallet’s latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users and opening the door for more privacy-focused integrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2410,73,215,1472,2713],"class_list":{"0":"post-20402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-dojo","9":"tag-privacy","10":"tag-samourai","11":"tag-tor","12":"tag-zerolink"},"author_data":{"id":3435,"name":"Jimmy Aki","nicename":"jimmy-aki","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jimmy-aki-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/samourai-wallet-adds-tor-integration-in-privacy-push-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}