# TORch: Illuminating the Path to your Node

TORch is a solution for creating an SSH-via-Tor backdoor on a remote device as a means of fallback remote management and initial headless device configuration.

## Description

Since Tor traffic easily crosses NAT boundries, this is a nice solution for 
* fallback connection to remote devices located on other LANs in the event that the network configuration on the remote side changes and the primary connection / VPN fails
* the initial discovery and connection to a headless device like a Raspberry Pi on a local network which is configured via DHCP

A TORch solution consists of 3 processes:
* `torch-agent` - Installed on remote machine; responsible for creating Tor hidden service and broadcasting the onion hostname an MQTT broker
* MQTT broker - Any MQTT broker, reachable via IPv4 or Tor, through TLS or insecure communications
* `torch-subscriber` - Listens for and handles onion hostname publications

## Installation of TORch Agent (Ubuntu)

Copy the files to the target device
* `install-ubuntu2004.sh`
* `torch-agent.py`
* `torch.conf`
* `torch.service`

Run the installation script:
```bash
vagrant@ubuntu2004:~$ ./install-ubuntu2004.sh
```

This will create a local user `torch` and install the TORch agent as a Systemd service named `torch`

## Configuration

The TORch agent will look for a `torch.conf` configuration in the configuration directory.

The configuation directory can be specified by
* The `TORCH_CONFIG_DIR` environment variable
* Using the `--config-dir` commandline option
* Default: `/etc/torch`

A fully configured example can be found [here](example/README.md)

See the sample [`torch.conf`](torch.conf) file for additional configuration options and details