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diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 787223d701..74915b7119 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -2702,6 +2702,61 @@ __DataDirectory__**/lock**:: __DataDirectory__**/keys/***:: Only used by servers. Holds identity keys and onion keys. +__DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_identity_key**:: + A v3 directory authority's master identity key, used to authenticate its + signing key. Tor doesn't use this while it's running. The tor-gencert + program uses this. If you're running an authority, you should keep this + key offline, and not actually put it here. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_certificate**:: + A v3 directory authority's certificate, which authenticates the authority's + current vote- and consensus-signing key using its master identity key. + Only directory authorities use this file. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_signing_key**:: + A v3 directory authority's signing key, used to sign votes and consensuses. + Only directory authorities use this file. Corresponds to the + **authority_certificate** cert. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/legacy_certificate**:: + As authority_certificate: used only when V3AuthUseLegacyKey is set. + See documentation for V3AuthUseLegacyKey. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/legacy_signing_key**:: + As authority_signing_key: used only when V3AuthUseLegacyKey is set. + See documentation for V3AuthUseLegacyKey. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_id_key**:: + A relay's RSA1024 permanent identity key, including private and public + components. Used to sign router descriptors, and to sign other keys. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_master_id_public_key**:: + The public part of a relay's Ed25519 permanent identity key. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_master_id_secret_key**:: + The private part of a relay's Ed25519 permanent identity key. This key + is used to sign the medium-term ed25519 signing key. This file can be + kept offline, or kept encrypted. If so, Tor will not be able to generate + new signing keys itself; you'll need to use tor --keygen yourself to do + so. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_signing_secret_key**:: + The private and public components of a relay's medium-term Ed25519 signing + key. This key is authenticated by the Ed25519 master key, in turn + authenticates other keys (and router descriptors). + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_signing_cert**:: + The certificate which authenticates "ed25519_signing_secret_key" as + having been signed by the Ed25519 master key. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_onion_key**:: + A relay's RSA1024 short-term onion key. Used to decrypt old-style ("TAP") + circuit extension requests. + +__DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_onion_key_ntor**:: + A relay's Curve25519 short-term onion key. Used to handle modern ("ntor") + circuit extension requests. + __DataDirectory__**/fingerprint**:: Only used by servers. Holds the fingerprint of the server's identity key. @@ -2710,9 +2765,8 @@ __DataDirectory__**/hashed-fingerprint**:: identity key. (That is, the hash of the hash of the identity key.) __DataDirectory__**/v3-status-votes**:: - Only for authoritative directory servers. This file contains status votes - from all the authoritative directory servers and is used to generate the - network consensus document. + Only for v3 authoritative directory servers. This file contains + status votes from all the authoritative directory servers. __DataDirectory__**/unverified-consensus**:: This file contains a network consensus document that has been downloaded, |