[tor-relays] how to generate relay keys manually (before actually running the relay)

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Thanks - will do

Cheers
Mark B
Snaptor.co.uk (non commercial)


On 3 Jan 2017, at 16:24, nusenu <nusenu at openmailbox.org> wrote:

>>> Tipp: If you are planing to grow beyond your 31 relays I recommend
>>> you preemptively generate the keys for your upcoming relays so you
>>> don't have to touch all other relays everytime you add a single
>>> relay (to the MyFamily line).
> 
> 
>> How do you pregenerate keys? Id be interested as Im spinning up
>> quite a few soon
> 
> create a folder per tor instance:
> 
> mkdir future-relay1 future-relay2 ...
> 
> 
> then invoke tor manually (this will just generate keys and exit after that):
> 
> tor --PublishServerDescriptor 0 --orport auto --list-fingerprint
> --datadirectory future-relay1 --Log "err stdout"
> 
> 
> tor --PublishServerDescriptor 0 --orport auto --list-fingerprint
> --datadirectory future-relay2 --Log "err stdout"
> 
> ...
> 
> In these folders you will then find the fingerprint that you can use in
> MyFamily, so you don't have to touch your existing relays anymore once
> you actually use these generated keys on new relays.
> 
> Make sure you take care of filesystem permissions when using these keys
> on the actual relay.
> 
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