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I'm trying to write a little python GUI to make interaction with tor control easier on windows, to make using hidden services easier. I'd like to be able to use a password to authenticate, but tor.exe --hash-password mypassword didn't print out anything, and I'd like to be able to hash the password in python anyway.
I looked in main.c and found the function do_hash_password but I don't know which included file to look at to see how all the other functions are used.
First off, if --hash-password doesn't work please file a bug on the bug tracker.
You can check out Stem's integration tests to see how to calculate a password hash using Python.
subprocess.check_output(['tor.exe', '--hash-password', 'stuff']) in python. This seems to be a known problem, or at least very similar to an old one I saw mention of online. Thanks for the link to the python stuff! It still doesn't totally explain it though, since it doesn't explain how how is chosen. I can probably figure it out.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt#n3007
If the 'HashedControlPassword' option is set, it must contain the salted
hash of a secret password. The salted hash is computed according to the
S2K algorithm in RFC 2440 (OpenPGP), and prefixed with the s2k specifier.
This is then encoded in hexadecimal, prefixed by the indicator sequence
"16:".
Here's a quick text explanation on how the password hash generator in Tor works:
Salt"16:" + Hex(Salt) + "60" + Hex(Sha1) where + is string concatenation and Hex() is "convert bytes to uppercase hexadecimal"To test your implementation, use the password "TestPassword12345678" and the Salt 0x72,0x84,0x07,0x51,0xE1,0xEC,0xE7,0x7D
The resulting hash should be 16:72840751E1ECE77D603D8463393DA85D67E7A9746DA4B3533DC7A37178
This takes a big shortcut. Namely, the repetition count from step 3 is in reality dynamic.
The formula in use by Tor is count = (16 + (c & 15)) << ((c >> 4) + EXPBIAS);
EXPBIAS is defined as 6 and c is defined as 0x60 (this is the number we insert between the salt and hash in step 5).
Because these numbers are currently constant, the result of the formula is always the same. However, if you make a function that checks the user password against the hash, you don't want to use a constant 0x60 but use the value that is actually in use in the password hash.
tor --hash-password mypassword and I get the HashedControlPasword for nyx, And I put it in /etc/tor/torrc, then try to open nyx and put the plain text password, when it asks me to. All this doesn't work. Nyx says Incorrect password. How is it going to compare the password hashes, if the same password hashed 2 times may have a different hash?
Feb 7 at 20:13
If you're using Windows PowerShell then try this
tor --hash-password YourPasswordhere | out-file -filepath \path\to\somewhere\filename.txt
Seems like on the day you asked this question, the tor --hash-password command had a bug, and now it's fixed. You can use it to hash your password.
For the Windows users, you can use the following command to hash your password:
.\tor.exe --hash-password "mypassword" | echo
The | echo is for printing the output of the command.
Just simple windows command line to generate the HashedControlPassword
C:/path_to_tor/tor.exe --hash-password mypassword > tor-password.txt
or
cd C:/path_to_tor C:/path_to_tor: tor.exe --hash-password mypassword > tor-password.txt
