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HOW TO SECURE YOUR TOR ONION KEYS

This is a quick guide on how to secure your Tor Onionsite from someone intercepting the keys and hijacking your domain.

Open a terminal and Type

sudo su –

Only hs_ed25519_secret_key is required for TOR to work

Copy other keys to a backup location

Do do this type:
mkdir /backup
mkdir /backup/current-tor-keys
cd /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
cp -R ./* /backup/current-tor-keys/
rm hs_ed25519_public_key
sudo chown -R debian-tor: /var/lib/tor/hidden_service
sudo chmod -R u+rwX,og-rwx /var/lib/tor/hidden_service

Now use WinSCP and copy the keys off the server to a safe location and delete them from your /backup directory

Decrypt Windows 10 Folder

How To Decrypt Your Files On Another Computer

This guide is part 2 of an earlier guide.  This explains how to access your files from another system, or restore them to a new computer.  The earlier guide can be found here:

https://tacticalware.com/windows-10-encrypted-folder/

Press the Windows + R keys on your keyboard to open the Run box

Type in certmgr.msc and click Ok

Right click on the Personal folder

Select All Tasks

Click on Import

Store Location should be Current User, and Click Next

Click Browse, navigate to your backup copy of the keys and select them

Click Next

Where prompted, type in the Password for your private key

Check the boxes to:

Mark the key as exportable

and  Include all extended properties

Now you can click Next

Click Automatically select the certificate store based on the type of certificate

Click on Next

Select Finish

There will be a dialog box that shows up which says The import was successful

Click Ok to close the box, and you can close out of the certmgr window

Now, try opening up the encrypted files/folder and you should have access