[tor-talk] A question about Tor & Hidden Services

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

On 1/8/12 12:58 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:45:10PM -0800, Kevin H. E. wrote:
>> I am wondering if it is possible to pass the hostname & private key on a
>> hidden service directly to the control socket, without writing it to the
>> hard drive (and without passing it to the process as a startup argument).
> 
> Not currently. We'd welcome a control protocol patch to implement that.
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1949

That would be extremely valuable, especially for third party application
that would like to automatically setup a TorHS to expose itself to Tor
Darknet, with as much cross-platform methods as possible, by keeping all
the relevant data in the application database (ex: GlobaLeaks).

-naif