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Fixes #1277. Adds a separate document tor.md detailing installation and configuration requirements for both Makers and Takers, in particular details how to configure for the serving of an ephemeral onion service.master
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### How to use Tor with Joinmarket |
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(You've installed using the `install.sh` or similar as per instructions in the README before |
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reading this). |
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This document gives short notes on any necessary configuration steps for using Joinmarket as a Maker or a Taker, in coinjoins. |
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The requirements for Takers are lesser. |
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### Contents |
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1. [Checking Tor is installed](#torinstall) |
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2. [Using Tor as a Taker](#tortaker) |
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3. [Using Tor as a Maker](#tormaker) |
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a. [Configuring Tor to setup an onion service](#torconfig) |
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<a name="torinstall"> |
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### Checking Tor is installed |
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(Insert sanity check advice for system `tor`.) |
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If you don't currently have a Tor daemon running on your machine you can use the flag `--with-local-tor` appended to your invocation of `./install.sh` as per the installation instructions in the README. |
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<a name="tortaker"> |
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### Using Tor as a Taker |
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Insert basic instructions on checking Tor is functional and SOCKS port. |
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<a name="toraaker> |
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### Using Tor as a Maker |
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Insert explanation of why Maker is different, before going on to: |
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<a name="torconfig" /> |
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#### Configuring Tor to setup an onion service |
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(These steps were prepared using Ubuntu; you may have to adjust for your distro). |
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First, ensure you have Tor installed: |
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``` |
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sudo apt install tor |
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``` |
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Don't start the tor daemon yet though, since we need to do some setup. Edit Tor's config file with sudo: |
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``` |
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sudo vim /etc/tor/torrc |
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``` |
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and uncomment these two lines to enable onion service startup: |
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``` |
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ControlPort 9051 |
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CookieAuthentication 1 |
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``` |
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However if you proceed at this point to try to start your yieldgenerator with `python yg-privacyenhanced.py wallet.jmdat` or similar, you will almost certainly get an error like this: |
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``` |
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Permission denied: '/var/run/tor/control.authcookie' |
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``` |
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... because reading this file requires being a member of the group `debian-tor`. So add your user to this group: |
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``` |
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sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor yourusername |
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``` |
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... and then you must *restart the computer/server* (or maybe just logout, login) for that change to take effect (check it with `groups yourusername`). |
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Finally, after system restart, ensure Tor is started (it may be automatically, but anyway): |
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``` |
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sudo service tor start |
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``` |
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Once this is done, you should be able to start the yieldgenerator successfully. |
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