A console utility to bring up new Tor nodes easily
A console utility to bring up new Tor nodes easily
Current progress
Works:
- key generation
- node management commands
- file copy
- command execution on one or all nodes
- automatic configuration of tor on the node
Works in progress:
- meaningful statistics
- ability to compile torspray to a standalone executable
- password login support
Why?
This tool is meant to empower less tech-savvy users to be able to quickly and effortlessly
bring up tor nodes to help out the network in times of crisis.
What do I need?
- You will need a virtual machine (VM) with Debian 11 at a hosting provider. I use Hetzner.
- On installation, specify the ssh key that torspray generates. Passwords support doesn’t yet work unfortunately.
- if you don’t remember, run
torspray showpubkey
- if you don’t remember, run
- Once the server is provisioned you