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<a href="../index.html">Previous Page</a></br></br><p><img src="../../assets/img/user.png" width="50px" height="50px"> <ba>nihilist - 00 / 00 / 00</ba></p>
<h1>Hide your monero wealth </h1>
<p>In this tutorial I will show an setup how to hide your monero wealth, with plausible deniability provided by veracrypt </p>
<p>We need a environment very similar to Nihilism's private + sensitive vm setup, so be familiar with it before continuing. Some details mentioned in the previously tutorial will be omitted here.</p>
<p><a href="../sensitivevm/index.html">Sensitive VM setup</a></p>
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<h2><b>Initial Setup </b></h2>
<p>According to the nihilism's tutorial, first install your kicksecure or debian <b>host OS</b>. Once you have done installing your host OS, start it in persistent mode first for setting up qemu/kvm</p>
<p>First install all the necessary software</p>
<pre><code class="nim">
$sudo apt-get update; sudo apt install --no-install-recommends qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients virt-manager gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 dnsmasq-base qemu-utils iptables safe-rm xz-utils
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<p>Next run some necessary configuration</p>
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$sudo adduser "$(whoami)" libvirt
$sudo adduser "$(whoami)" kvm
$sudo systemctl restart libvirtd
$sudo virsh -c qemu:///system net-autostart default
$sudo virsh -c qemu:///system net-start default
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<p>Next create a veracrypt container on another storage device, with a big enough hidden volume according to the nihilism's tutorial</p>
<p>Reboot your host OS into live mode, <b>live mode</b> prevents any log or other traces be written to disk. This makes sure digital forensic cannot find out the existence of our private vm</p>
<p>In theory if you have done everything correctly according to previous tutorial, we should have a plausible deniability setup available. The <b>private</b> VM will store our decoy monero wallet. The <b>sensitive</b> VM will store our real monero wallet, which contains a lot of $$$ and might be legally questionable.</p>
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<h2><b>Sensitive VM setup</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>First decrypt and mount your hidden veracrypt volume. Next setup Whonix gateway and workstation according to nihilism's tutorial.</p>
<p>You should have all the whonix VM files inside the container</p>
<img src="Whonix_vm_files.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Once you have done setup the Whonix vms inside the sensitive VM, copy this script so you do not need to manually define the VMs everytime rebooted. You just need to run this script everytime you mount the volume</p>
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#!/bin/bash
if [ $(virsh -c qemu:///system list --all | grep Whonix | wc -l) -ne 0 ];
then
# if the VMs are imported, remove them:
virsh -c qemu:///system destroy Whonix-Gateway
virsh -c qemu:///system destroy Whonix-Workstation
virsh -c qemu:///system undefine Whonix-Gateway
virsh -c qemu:///system undefine Whonix-Workstation
virsh -c qemu:///system net-destroy Whonix-External
virsh -c qemu:///system net-destroy Whonix-Internal
virsh -c qemu:///system net-undefine Whonix-External
virsh -c qemu:///system net-undefine Whonix-Internal
else
# if the VMs are not imported, import them:
virsh -c qemu:///system net-define /mnt/veracrypt1/Whonix-external.xml
virsh -c qemu:///system net-define /mnt/veracrypt1/Whonix-internal.xml
virsh -c qemu:///system net-autostart Whonix-External
virsh -c qemu:///system net-start Whonix-External
virsh -c qemu:///system net-autostart Whonix-Internal
virsh -c qemu:///system net-start Whonix-Internal
virsh -c qemu:///system define /mnt/veracrypt1/Whonix-Gateway.xml
virsh -c qemu:///system define /mnt/veracrypt1/Whonix-Workstation.xml
fi
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<p>Now we are supposed to have our sensitive whonix gateway and workstaiton ready, open them and upgrade the system</p>
<img src="Whonix_vm_ready.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Next access monero website to get the official wallet, or use any wallet you like</p>
<p>Create a new wallet inside the sensitive workstation vm, and store the seed into the keepassx vault, remember to safely back up this VM.</p>
<img src="Seed.png" class="imgRz">
<p>For how to acquire and use monero, consult the monero tutorial</p>
<p>The setup of sensitive VM is now done, use this VM <b>only</b> for sensitive monero transactions, if you want to have other darknet activities create another dedicated workstation.</p>
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<h2><b>Private VM setup</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>Now we are going to set up our private VM, this part is going to differ from nihilism's tutorial. We are going to replicate <b>another</b> group of whonix workstation and gateway inside the outer veracrypt volume</p>
<p>We are going to have a decoy monero wallet, this wallet will have much less money in it, and all the transactions are charity related. If you have too much money in private VM, you can also pretend it is anonymous donation and move to your sensitive wallet.</p>
<img src="Money_flow.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Mount the veracrypt outer volume, remember also to input the <b>hidden volume</b> password, since you <b>do not</b> want your hidden volume get destroyed!</p>
<img src="Veracrypt.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Repeat <b>exactly</b> what you have done in the previous section, import and setup the whonix VMs, and copy the management script to it.</p>
<p>Once done open up the workstation VM, download a monero wallet, and create a new wallet, save the seed to the local keepass database.</p>
<p>Occasionally open this private VM, and make some donations to open source project you like, so this VM is going to look like a legit active daily VM.</p>
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<h2><b>Emergency</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>Now we have come to the <b>most important</b> part, which is how to handle the situation when someone has raided your house</p>
<p><b>Situation one</b>: Your computer is not power up, you can simply give adversary the outer volume password and deny the presence of hidden volume, and your sensitive activities will be safe</p>
<p><b>Situation two</b>: Someone kicks the door when you are using the sensitive VM, you have to setup the emergency script and shortcut mentioned in nihilism's tutorial, test it <b>multiple times</b> to make sure it works!</p>
<p>You have to make sure your computer can be shutdown properly. I personally prefer a PC than a laptop, since directly unplug the power is always more reliable than a software implementation.</p>
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