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'tor --hash-password <password>'
or by using the example code in the Python and Java controller libraries.
To authenticate under this scheme, the controller sends Tor the original
- secret that was used to generate the password.
+ secret that was used to generate the password, either as a quoted string
+ or encoded in hexadecimal.
5.2. Don't let the buffer get too big.