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ns12
Hello, I have a question about OpenAlias. Isn't there a risk that a DNS request could be MITMed and give the wrong Monero address to the client requesting the address? A malicious actor could substitute their own Monero address for the real address in order to redirect transfers that are supposed to go to the real address.
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moneromooo
If you don't verify the signature, yes.
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moneromooo
Some asshole DNS servers mangle the signature. And some (not criminal because companies that make money and pay taxes so it's fine) ISPs do MITM your DNS and strip signatures. That's right there in the behaviour that'd land a non company in jail but is apparently a good demonstration of the hypocrisy of the legal system in western countries.
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moneromooo
So switch if either of those two things is your case, till you get verifiable signatures.
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ns12
moneromooo: How do third-parties verify the signature? What keys are needed to verify the signature?
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moneromooo
I forget the details now, but if you use a library like libunbound, it'll do the verification for you.
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moneromooo
It must rely on trust somewhat though, since you don't a key per TXT record.
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moneromooo
Kinda like the CA SSL cert system.
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moneromooo
Lookup DNSSEC if oyu're interested in the details.
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ns12
Hello, how do I connect to stagenet using monero-wallet-gui? I want to use stagenet to learn Monero.
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moneromooo
Did you try adding --stagenet to the command line ?
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moneromooo
(I'm guessing, I don't remember how that one works(
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ns12
moneromooo: "monero-wallet-gui --stagenet" gives a return code of 1. The error message is "monero-core: Unknown option 'stagenet'."
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moneromooo
Then --help ?
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ns12
It seems that the --stagenet option is only for monero-wallet-cli.
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moneromooo
Also for monero-wallet-rpc, it's handled by wallet2, and monero-wallet-gui also uses wallet2.
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moneromooo
So it had a fair chance of working at first approximation.
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ns12
Nothing relevant in --help. The only listed options are --verify-update, --disable-check-updates, --socks5-proxy, --log-file, --help, and --help-all.
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ns12
--help-all is for listing Qt options.
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moneromooo
Kinda sucks. Try opening a stagenet wallet then. Maybe it detects network type and configures itself based on that.
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moneromooo
Or maybe I should shut up since I don't know ^_^
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ns12
moneromooo: I guess I will just stick to monero-wallet-cli for now. It is a bit weird that there is no stagenet option for monero-wallet-gui, but I'm new to this. There's probably a good reason.
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moneromooo
Pretty sure there is, I must have used testnet when I was hacking on it.
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moneromooo
Is there a README ?
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moneromooo
Or git grep -i option | grep -i testnet
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ns12
Hmm... I will look around. By the way, I am using the latest Monero GUI: version 0.17.3.1
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ns12
Perhaps I should start "monerod --stagenet" before starting monero-wallet-gui. Let me try that.
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ns12
Hmm... No that did not work. Nothing changed in monero-wallet-gui.
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ns12
By the way, what is the total size of the current stagenet blockchain?
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ns12
moneromooo: I've figured it out. In the "Mode selection" menu, click "Advanced mode". Then, under "Advanced options", select "Stagenet" in the "Network" dropdown. Then click "Create new wallet". Fill in the required information ... Then, in the "Daemon settings" select the "Connect to a remote node" radio button. Add a remote node (e.g. one of
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ns12
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millican
On a pool website, what does "best hash" refer to?
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millican
specifically, this page; when one clicks on a contributor
cryptonote.social/xmr/leaderboard
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selsta
millican: might want to ask in #monero-pools
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millican
thanks selsta! I didn't know of that channel.
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selsta
#monero-pools is 5% pools related and 95% off topic
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millican
sorry about that. I had no idea.
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millican
oh wait, you're saying the discussion on that channel is mostly off-topic
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Snipa
Comically so most of the time.