[tor-talk] A question about Tor & Hidden Services

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:45:10PM -0800, Kevin H. E. wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to pass the hostname & private key on a
> hidden service directly to the control socket, without writing it to the
> hard drive (and without passing it to the process as a startup argument).

Not currently. We'd welcome a control protocol patch to implement that.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1949

--Roger