[tor-dev] non-anonymous ephemeral onion services with stem

[Damian Johnson]

> Excellent. I'm pretty sure this will work, but can you confirm? If I'd
> like to use a non-anonymous ephemeral onion service, would code that's
> something like this work, assuming c is a Controller?
>
> c.set_conf('HiddenServiceSingleHopMode', 1)
> c.set_conf('HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode', 1)
> c.create_ephemeral_hidden_service(8080)
>
> And when other processes connect to the Tor control port and run
> create_ephemeral_hidden_service, those onion services wouldn't be
> non-anonymous?

Good question. The non-anonymous torrc options are pretty clunky to
use. In part this is by design because the authors wanted to
discourage their use.

I thought those torrc options could only be set prior to tor starting
up (like DisableDebuggerAttachment), but on reflection the manual
doesn't say that so maybe that's not the case? However, seems you also
need to set 'SOCKSPort 0'...

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode

If you call the above SETCONF does tor give any indication that you
need to set the SOCKSPort too? If not then it feels like it should
since that's pretty unintuitive.