[tor-project] For technical users: Please help us test next-gen onions!

[George Kadianakis]

David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 02:34:19PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote:
>> Here are some basic instructions:
>> 
>> 1) First of all, clone tor from git:
>>    $ git clone https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git
>>    and then build it:
>>    $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
>> 
>> 2) Setup a basic torrc for your tor client:
>>    ====
>>    SocksPort 9008
>>    RunAsDaemon 0
>>    SafeLogging 0
>>    DataDirectory /home/user/tmp/tor
>>    Log notice stdout
>>    Log notice file /home/user/tmp/hsclient/tor.log
>>    Log info file  /home/user/tmp/hsclient/torinfo.log
>>    ===
>> 
>>    and start up tor using the above torrc. Or setup your own torrc, you
>>    might find your own bugs that way ;)
>
> I got it to work in Tor Messenger. Run steps 1 and 2, but change the
> port to 9152, which is what Tor Messenger expects.
>
> SocksPort 9152
> RunAsDaemon 0
> SafeLogging 0
> DataDirectory /home/user/tmp/tor
> Log notice stdout
> Log notice file /home/user/tmp/hsclient/tor.log
> Log info file  /home/user/tmp/hsclient/torinfo.log
>
> Then run Tor Messenger like so:
>
> TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 ./start-tor-messenger.desktop
>
> Go to Tools→Accounts and click New Account. IRC→Next.
> Username: you choose
> Server: gff4ixq3takworeuhkubzz4xh2ulytoct4xrpazkiykhupalqlo53ryd.onion
> Password: <empty>
> Port: 6697
> ✓ Use SSL
>
> When you first connect, there will be an SSL certificate error. You have
> to click on the account in the Accounts window and add an exception.
>
> Once it's connected, do File→Join Chat, choose the account you just
> created, set
> Channel: #prop224
> and click OK.

Thanks for this David!

BTW my original HOWTO was full of mistakes, so I made a wiki page with
information and instructions: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/NextGenOnions

If people can try it out and tell me if it works for them, that would be great!
Feel free to improve the wiki if you see something wrong. 
   
Thanks!