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diff --git a/doc/tor.md b/doc/tor.md index 79f1563021..a05979fca8 100644 --- a/doc/tor.md +++ b/doc/tor.md @@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ This means that if Tor is running (and proper authentication has been configured Bitcoin Core automatically creates a hidden service to listen on. This will positively affect the number of available .onion nodes. -This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and -a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the `-listenonion`, -`-torcontrol` and `-torpassword` settings. To show verbose debugging -information, pass `-debug=tor`. +This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening (`-listen`), and +requires a Tor connection to work. It can be explicitly disabled with `-listenonion=0` +and, if not disabled, configured using the `-torcontrol` and `-torpassword` settings. +To show verbose debugging information, pass `-debug=tor`. Connecting to Tor's control socket API requires one of two authentication methods to be configured. For cookie authentication the user running bitcoind must have write access @@ -113,4 +113,13 @@ the user running bitcoind to the same group and setting permissions appropriatel Debian-based systems the user running bitcoind can be added to the debian-tor group, which has the appropriate permissions. An alternative authentication method is the use of the `-torpassword` flag and a `hash-password` which can be enabled and specified in -Tor configuration.
\ No newline at end of file +Tor configuration. + +4. Privacy recommendations +--------------------------- + +- Do not add anything but bitcoin ports to the hidden service created in section 2. + If you run a web service too, create a new hidden service for that. + Otherwise it is trivial to link them, which may reduce privacy. Hidden + services created automatically (as in section 3) always have only one port + open. |