Title: Tor part 6: onionshare for sharing files anonymously | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 21 November 2018 | |
Tags: tor unix networking openbsd | |
Description: | |
If for some reasons you need to share a file anonymously, this can be | |
done | |
through Tor using the port net/onionshare. Onionshare will start a web | |
server | |
displaying an unique page with a list of shared files and a *Download | |
Files* | |
button leading to a zip file. | |
While waiting for a download, onionshare will display HTTP logs. By | |
default, | |
onionshare will exit upon successful download of the files but this can | |
be | |
changed with the flag --stay-open. | |
Its usage is very simple, execute **onionshare** with the list of files | |
to | |
share, as you can see in the following example: | |
solene@computer ~ $ onionshare Epictetus-The_Enchiridion.txt | |
Onionshare 1.3 | https://onionshare.org/ | |
Connecting to the Tor network: 100% - Done | |
Configuring onion service on port 17616. | |
Starting ephemeral Tor onion service and awaiting publication | |
Settings saved to /home/solene/.config/onionshare/onionshare.json | |
Preparing files to share. | |
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:17616/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) | |
Give this address to the person you're sending the file to: | |
http://3ngjewzijwb4znjf.onion/hybrid-marbled | |
Press Ctrl-C to stop server | |
Now, I need to give the address | |
`http://3ngjewzijwb4znjf.onion/hybrid-marbled` | |
to the receiver who will need a web browser with Tor to download it. |