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auth cookie in android tor browser
by Sebastian E. Ovide 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

Hello All, I've used successfully an auth cookie in tor browser on my how. All the guides suggests to use OROT, set the cookie there and then un TorFox. But torfox is not longer there. Is anybody acceding an onion hidden service on Android ? How did you set the auth cookie ? thanks -- Sebastian E. Ovide

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HSv3 load balancing: not yet?
by rossulbricht＠cock.li 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

I read the tor hsv3 specs and saw some parts considering load balancing. === 1.5. In more detail: Scaling to multiple hosts This design is compatible with our current approaches for scaling hidden services. Specifically, hidden service operators can use onionbalance to achieve high availability between multiple nodes on the HSDir layer. Furthermore, operators can use proposal 255 to load balance their hidden services on the introduction layer. See [SCALING-REFS] for further discussions on this topic and alternative designs. === The reason for a maximum value of 20 is to give enough scalability to tools like OnionBalance to be able to load balance up to 120 servers (20 x 6 HSDirs) but also in order for the descriptor size to not overwhelmed hidden service directories with user defined values that could be gigantic. === So... can we benefit from this? Onionbalance seems to have been abandoned and prop255 seems to have stalled. Is there any effective way to properly load balance hsv3?

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by Amadou Sene 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Mot de passe tor

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by MikeQ 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

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Doubts about onion v3 services
by Elige TuMooc 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

As far as I know (if there is any error, please tell me), the onion v3 services allow the master keys -public and secret (or private)- ed25519, generated in the directory stipulated in "HiddenServiceDir" to be stored offline (on a pendrive, for example), because the secret key is used "only" to generate derived keys, which are what the service actually uses. As far as I can read in the corresponding protocol, the derivations of the master keys (which can be stored offline) are: "blinded signing keys and descriptor signing keys (and their credentials), and their corresponding descriptor encryption keys" ( https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v3.txt#n529) Assuming the above is correct,I have some doubts: 1. The keys and other elements derived from the public and private master keys (like “blinded signing keys”) are generated by the operator, according to the protocol. Will Tor incorporate any software/tools that make this procedure easier for the user? 2. If the operator does not generate the derived elements, and only modifies the torrc file to add "HiddenServiceDir" and "HiddenServicePort", will the onion service work, or will the lack of the derived elements not work? 3. As far as I understand, currently the option to save offline the master keys is not available. Does this mean that derived elements, such as "blinded signing keys" are not used yet? To what extent is the v3 protocol implemented? 4. V3 encrypts the onion service descriptor sent to the "HSDir" node to prevent these nodes from collecting onion addresses. But is this currently happening, even if the operator does not generate the derived keys using the master key pair? I apologize for any write errors (English is not my mother tongue).

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Presentation on Onion Networking at the BCS
by Alec Muffett 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Last week I was delighted to be invited to the British Computer Society "OpenSource Specialist Group", where I presented: "Why & How you should start using Onion Networking" Now available for viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pebRZyg_bh8 (caution: it starts a bit loud, check your volume) There are a few nits in it where I misspoke or wasn't entirely sure — some stuff I need to read-up on, plus it turns out that thinking on your feet is hard — but I think it's mostly okay. - alec -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm

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EOTK Updates: Ubuntu18LTS, Site Config, and *V3 ONIONS*
by Alec Muffett 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

Thread at: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1146909965589843971 -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm

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.onion service unavailable at times
by Dylan Holand 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

I have a dedicated server with a few onoin-services on it. One of the URL's have some traffic to it, and this URL is not reachable a few times every day. Sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 15 minutes.. While it's not available, the other onions is working fine, and they all have the same settings. I'm running tor 0.3.5.8-1.el7 Here's a portion of journalctl output which might give a hint of what this could be. These kind of errors show up a lot, and only for the one .onion that has some traffic to it: Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Couldn't relaunch rendezvous circuit to '[scrubbed]'. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Couldn't relaunch rendezvous circuit to '[scrubbed]'. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx. Tor[19172]: Giving up launching first hop of circuit to rendezvous point [scrubbed] for service xxx The server load and the tor process are not under heavy load when this is happening, so it's not a ddos attack or similar.. Any help whatsoever would be highly appreciated as I've been trying to find a solution for this for days!

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error with setting up thttpd
by BobLEEt 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Could i have help with setting up an onion website? I have downloaded thttpd, following a tutorial and what tor recommends. This is what i have done so far in the terminal on ubuntu: "~$ sudo wget http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz ~$ tar -zxvf thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz ~$ cd thttpd-2.25b/ ~/thttpd-2.25b$ sudo apt-get install gcc" But when I do ":~/thttpd-2.25b$ CC=arm-linux-gcc ./configure --host=arm-linux --prefix=~/root_mkfs/usr/local" it comes up with an error message saying: "creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu checking build system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... arm-linux-gcc checking whether the C compiler (arm-linux-gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables." Please help with creating this website as I am not sure of the issue Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Multiple onions services. One url.
by Jason S. Evans 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Hi all, I'm wondering, what happens one someone creates an onion service with one hostname and private key at two or more locations? Does the Tor network have a way of ignoring the all but one, or is there some form of chaos as to where traffic actually goes? Thanks.

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