Tox Bootstrap Node

A server application to run tox bootstrap node.

Building and running

You'll need Rust >= 1.26.0 and libsodium.

Build with:

cargo build --release

Run with:

cargo run --release

If you want to change default log level you can do it via setting RUST_LOG environment variable. For example, if you want to see all received and sent packets you can change log level to trace for tox_node:

RUST_LOG=tox_node=trace cargo run --release

Also it's possible to use syslog via --log-type parameter.

MOTD

MOTD is an abbreviation for The Message of The Day. Tox bootstrap nodes have a special packet kind called BootstrapInfo to retrieve the MOTD alongside with version. Our node supports basic templates for the MOTD that can be specified via --motd key. It's possible to use the following variables surrounded by {{ }}:

• start_date: time when the node was started
• uptime: uptime in the format 'XX days XX hours XX minutes'

Keys generation

In order to run node you have to provide either secret key or path to a keys file.

Keys file

Keys file is a binary file with sequentially stored public and secret keys. Path to a keys file can be specified via --keys-file argument. If file doesn't exist it will be created with automatically generated keys. The format of this file is compatible with tox-bootstrapd.

You may also extract the key from the file:

hexdump -s32 -e '32/1 "%02x" "\n"' ./key

Secret key

Secret key is a hexadecimal string of size 32 bytes. It can be specified via TOX_SECRET_KEY environment variable. Any random string will fit but note that only strong random generators should be used to generate a secret key. Here are some examples how you can do it in the terminal:

openssl rand -hex 32
hexdump -n 32 -e '8 "%08x" 1 "\n"' /dev/random
od -vN 32 -An -tx1 /dev/random | tr -d " \n" ; echo