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blockstack-tor

Blockstack/Tor integration.

Getting Started

To get started, do the following.

  1. Install Blockstack.

  2. Set a Tor password, if you haven't already.

$ tor --hash-password "hello world"
16:1DFAB8C36452BBFE60C21699968AB3B8E0B89DF7F53AAFB7C4E4C5ED5E
  1. Add the password hash to your torrc file:
$ echo "HashControlPassword 16:1DFAB8C36452BBFE60C21699968AB3B8E0B89DF7F53AAFB7C4E4C5ED5E" >> /etc/tor/torrc
  1. Start Tor
$ tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
  1. Start blockstack-tor with your Tor password
$ blockstack-tor --password "hello world"
  1. Try it out

Test it out with duckduckgo_tor.id, which points to DuckDuckGo's hidden service.

$ curl -L --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 -D - duckduckgo_tor.id
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:33:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Location: https://duckduckgo.com/
Expires: Tue, 08 May 2018 19:33:52 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
X-DuckDuckGo-Locale: en_US

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:33:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 5229
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "59109693-146d"
Expires: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:33:53 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Accept-Ranges: bytes

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IEMobile 7 ]> <html lang="en_US" class="no-js iem7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <html class="ie6 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7 no-js" lang="en_US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>    <html class="ie7 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8 no-js" lang="en_US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>    <html class="ie8 lt-ie10 lt-ie9 no-js" lang="en_US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]>    <html class="ie9 lt-ie10 no-js" lang="en_US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|(gt IEMobile 7)|!(IEMobile)|!(IE)]><!--><html class="no-js" lang="en_US"><!--<![endif]-->

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How to Link a .onion Address to a Blockchain ID

To register your .onion address, add a TXT record to your name's zone file, formatted as tor "address.onion". You can either manually edit your zone file, or use the new zone file wizard in Blockstack 0.14.2+ to add the TXT record interactively. There should be only one tor entry in your zone file.

Example for DuckDuckGo:

$ORIGIN duckduckgo_tor.id
$TTL 3600
tor TXT "3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion"

The steps to register a name for your .onion address are as follows:

  1. Make a zone file with your .onion address
$ cat /tmp/tordemo.zonefile
$ORIGIN tordemo.id
$TTL 3600
tor TXT "3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion"
  1. Register your Blockchain ID with the zone file
$ blockstack register tordemo.id /tmp/tordemo.zonefile
  1. Wait for the registration to confirm
$ blockstack get_name_zonefile tordemo.id
{
    "zonefile": "$ORIGIN tordemi.id\n$TTL 3600\ntor TXT \"3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion\"\n"
}
  1. Enjoy!

Miscellaneous

  • I don't have Blockstack installed. Can I still try this out?

Yes, you can! Run blockstack-tor with the --blockstack-node=node.blockstack.org:6264 flag to use a public node.

  • Will you add support for Prop279?

Yes, that's the plan.

  • How do I try out adding .onion addresses to Blockstack names without registering them first?

You can use the Blockstack Integration Test Framework to register arbitrary Blockstack names and namespaces, and give them arbitrary zone files with which to experiment with this tool.