[tor-talk] Using .onion address for MQTT pubsub.

2017-03-22 Thread MaQ
Just a little experiment after seeing Home Assistant. Is it possible to start a Mosquitto server and publish / subscribe using tor address? I tried doing: mosquitto_sub -h abcdefg123456789.onion -d -t hello/world AND mosquitto_sub -h abcdefg123456789.onion -p 9150(and mqtt port) -d -t hello/worl

Re: [tor-talk] Problem with where hidden_services able to be placed/permissions.

2015-08-12 Thread MaQ
ib/tor, unless you didn't change it by modifying torrc. Do you see there files like cached-microdesc-consensus, lock, state, etc.? Also, the username who should run Tor on your system is debian-tor. Please provide more details and torrc entries. On 8/10/2015 11:49 PM, MaQ wrote: > I tried a

[tor-talk] Problem with where hidden_services able to be placed/permissions.

2015-08-10 Thread MaQ
I tried a couple of things. Gave complete permissions to user at /var/lib/tor/hidden_services/hostname recursively AND set-up a directory in user's Documents folder. In both instances Tor would not make a connection. Had to revert all settings back to only allowing files to be placed with root r

[tor-talk] Is it possible to adjust the number of hops through Tor?

2015-08-10 Thread MaQ
If yes, where exactly in files would that be done? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-08 Thread MaQ
Seth and et al, Thank you very much for the answers. It basically confirmed what I thought. Was also experimenting with a self-signed cert anyway as people connecting would already have a direct association. My thoughts after answers, while not knowing how everything works behind scenes, are the

[tor-talk] General question regarding tor, ssl and .onion.

2015-08-07 Thread MaQ
Hello, I'm curious, I'm developing an app whereas sharing/collaboration can be done by localhost through tor and .onion address between pairs or multiples. When I use standard http there seems to not be any problems connecting different computers, different IPs, etc. and interacting, but when