Timeline for How to take control of a Tor hidden service if you have the private key?
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| Nov 8, 2016 at 9:10 | comment | added | user14985 | You can erase the key and all directory /hidden_service after reboot or start your server and tor service,I got my tor key saved on DVD and encrypted, and I always leave encrypted too the key on a hidden directory on my machine. If someone hacke me or take my machine can not take down my hidden service. MOre secure if you erase every time all your hidden directory when star tor. | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 7:43 | answer | added | Linostar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:41 | comment | added | flagg19 | @bobjandal Pretty much that, if anyone else get to know your private key you better just create a new one and "move" to another onion address. It's only the private key that allows you to proove you are the legittimate "owner" of an address. If two ore more have the same private key they have the same right to own the address. (AFAIK). | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 21:32 | comment | added | bobjandal | But basically, if you lose the private key it's Game Over ? ie: you cannot regain control the .onion address and it becomes a resource contest from that point on ? | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 6:24 | comment | added | IAmNoone | The above here is correct. The latest server to 'register' on the domain servers gets the traffic going to the domain you are running. You can easily test this with two isolated virtual machines which has tor with the same keys installed. if you want to look more into what happens when you do this. | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 19:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTor/status/533707049675141120 | ||
| Nov 15, 2014 at 18:43 | comment | added | Jobiwan | Interesting question. In my mind I translated it to: "What happens when multiple hidden services use the same name?" I don't know the answer (hence the comment) but these are my thoughts: I would imagine that this could act as some kind of load balancing. It should not break the network, since anyone can just do it. Maybe you could 'outbalance' another HS's by advertising your service to more/faster HSDir servers or advertising more often. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 22:08 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 22:04 | history | asked | jokexel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |