Re: Tor hidden services

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Commit adds ‘tor-hidden-service’, which can be used to specify hidden
>> services quite easily.
>>
>> For example, to have your SSH daemon accessible over something.onion:22,
>> just do:
>>
>>   (operating-system
>>     ;; …
>>     (services (cons* (lsh-service #:interfaces '("127.0.0.1"))
>>                      (tor-hidden-service "ssh" '((22 "127.0.0.1:22")))
>>                      (tor-service)
>>                      %desktop-services)))
>>
>> and then you can:
>>
>>   torify ssh something.onion
>>
>> from anywhere.
>
> Wow, awesome!  I've never used a Tor hidden service before because I
> never understood how things work, but this configuration looks so
> simple that I don't have much excuse to not try it out.  Thanks!

We largely owe this to Tor, which is itself very simple to configure:

  https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Pretty cool!

Ludo’.