[tor-talk] Error message when running a hidden service

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:31:14PM -0500, cmeclax-sazri wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2011 19:27:22 Roger Dingledine wrote:
> > It's in plain text in your logs because there isn't much point hiding
> > it from you -- the .onion address (and corresponding key) are already
> > written in a text file on your system.
> 
> True, but the text file is on an encrypted partition. The log file 
> (/var/log/mesages) isn't.

Good point. Added as bug 2743:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2743

It's likely to sit there unresolved for a good while, so this would be
a great opportunity for somebody else to step in and get some practice
writing patches for Tor. :)

Thanks,
--Roger