If you don’t want to encrypt the master key, just don’t enter any passphrase

Optionally you can encrypt the master identity key with a passphrase: Tor will ask youįor one. Running 'tor -keygen' creates a new ed25519 master identity key for a relay, or onlyĪ fresh temporary signing key and certificate, if you already have a master key. To the console, or with the -quiet option, which tells Tor not to log to the console This behavior with the -hush option, which tells Tor to only send warnings and errors

It stops doing so after it parses itsĬonfiguration, if the configuration tells it to log anywhere else. By default, Tor starts out logging messages at level List all valid options that are scheduled to become obsolete in a future version. Used internally to implement a Windows service. Remove, start, or stop a configured Tor Windows service. Install an instance of Tor as a Windows service, with the provided command-line Generate your keys and output your nickname and fingerprint. Generates a hashed password for control port access. Ordinarily, Tor does this for missing default torrc files, but not for those specified Specifies that Tor should treat a missing torrc file as though it were empty. The contents of thisįile are overridden by those in the regular configuration file, and by those on theĬommand line. Specify a file in which to find default values for Tor options. (Default: /etc/tor/torrc, orĭo not require that configuration file specified by -f exist if default torrc can be to make Tor read its configuration from standard input. Specify a new configuration file to contain further Tor configuration options OR pass Please also consult theĭocumentation on the Tor Project’s website. Relay, change the ORPort configuration option - see below. To help the network by providing bandwidth as a Recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have difficulty tracking the sourceīy default, tor will act as a client only. Users bounce their TCP streams - web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc. Trafficįlowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals theīasically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays ('onion routers'). Network, in which each node knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Source-routed path through a set of nodes, and negotiate a 'virtual circuit' through the Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.

Tor onion router.