A script helping you maintaining your Tor family members' configuration.
The MyFamily configuration parameter in a torrc file contains a list of fingerprints with all family members. Technically one can configure on all its Tor nodes the same string, so every node contains all other nodes' fingerprints as well as its own fingerprint. According to the manual this won’t hurt. But wouldn't it be cool to get a unique, separate string with each fingerprint of the other family members without the node's own one? This exactly is the very purpose of myfam!
With myfam you maintain one list of comma separated fingerprints and nicknames with all your nodes in it and let myfam generate the unique configuration string per node family member.
Content of sample.txt:
$ cat example/sample.txt
01ABCDEF604669E636FFD5B503F382A4B7AD6NOT, myTorNode1
ADBCDEFA49573D52A7B6F4A35750F161AAD89NOT, myTorNode2
88CDEFAB980BF6E72092EE690E8C51C0AA4A5NOT, myTorNode3
95DEFABCF23A6C851028C1AA88AD8593F659ENOT, myTorNode4
Feed it into myfam:
$ ./myfam example/sample.txt
total nicknames 4 and total fingerprints 4
Nickname myTorNode1
MyFamily
ADBCDEFA49573D52A7B6F4A35750F161AAD89NOT,88CDEFAB980BF6E72092EE690E8C51C0AA4A5NOT,95DEFABCF23A6C851028C1AA88AD8593F659ENOT
Nickname myTorNode2
MyFamily
01ABCDEF604669E636FFD5B503F382A4B7AD6NOT,88CDEFAB980BF6E72092EE690E8C51C0AA4A5NOT,95DEFABCF23A6C851028C1AA88AD8593F659ENOT
Nickname myTorNode3
MyFamily
01ABCDEF604669E636FFD5B503F382A4B7AD6NOT,ADBCDEFA49573D52A7B6F4A35750F161AAD89NOT,95DEFABCF23A6C851028C1AA88AD8593F659ENOT
Nickname myTorNode4
MyFamily
01ABCDEF604669E636FFD5B503F382A4B7AD6NOT,ADBCDEFA49573D52A7B6F4A35750F161AAD89NOT,88CDEFAB980BF6E72092EE690E8C51C0AA4A5NOT
Usage: ./myfam FILE
- Download this project as .zip or by cloning it and switch to the unziped directory.
- Create a text file with one fingerprint-nickname-combo per line (see
example/sample.txt) - Run
./myfam <your-text-file>to get the torrc MyFamily string
This script is licensed under BSD 3-Clause license (see LICENSE.md for more information).