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Put Ed25519 keys in usable file format for Tor
To interpret the hs_ed25519_secret_key and hs_ed_25519_public_key files you can read/write the files in binary format. The first 32 bytes of these files are b"== ed25519v1-secret: type0 ==\x00\...
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Can't start relay - certificate error
Several issues were present:
1) Firewall was too restrictive preventing connections to a necessary port (53, for local dns resolving)
2) Torrc misconfiguration. Not entirely sure which option.
3) ...
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Private key in bash history a security issue?
Bash doesn't write the history to disk until it exits (or until you call something like history -w), so you can run history -c in bash to clear the current in-process history after you've run the echo ...
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Put Ed25519 keys in usable file format for Tor
The data you've displayed on a screenshot is a binary displayed as a char stream, you need to put it in the right format. I have a good example on Go - here is the code, I'm sure you'll spot the ...
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What's the difference between 'secret_id_key' and 'ed25519_master_id_key'?
secret_id_key is an RSA key and ed25519_master_id_key is a Ed25519 key used for Hidden Services v3.
Here is what the spec says about it: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v3.txt#...
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Is it possible to find encryption key in Tor Browser?
If you're doing something like a presentation, paper, book, etc, it's best to 1. Ask the developers and contributors directly https://www.torproject.org/contact/ and 2. Read the documentation for ...
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make a TOR url act like Alias in DNS
onion names are not based on DNS and don't work like them, but there are things that you can do.
Here is how I would do it. Just FYI, my example is based on Linux.
My website is simple. It is a ...
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Error: Couldn't rotate onion key
After looking into this again after leaving it for a long time, I quickly found the solution.
It turned out that the files in the /var/lib/tor/keys folder were not owned nor writable for the debian-...
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tor adds its own private_key for hidden_service, hijacking my custom .onion
As far as I remember shallot is used to generate custom keys and service names for version 2 of hidden services and you are requesting:
HiddenServiceVersion 3
Remove the above mentioned line and it ...
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Tor public key Provided object is too large
This is probably caused by key spam - a few days ago this key took up about 30 MB and took about 10 minutes to delete. Suggested mitigation.
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How to avoid your onion host privatekey to be stolen?
To my knowledge, there is currently no way to avoid that your key, at least for a short time, is on your server in cleartext.
However, the next generation onion services (V3) will allow you to do ...
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Is there a mechanism for testing that addresses and private keys match?
For any (sane) code, when you generate an RSA key you generate the private key then the public key is derived from it.
The onion address is the base32 encoded first 10 bytes of the sha1 sum of the ...
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