NAME

       onionshare - a tool for anonymously sharing files over a temporarily set up Tor Hidden service.

SYNOPSIS

       onionshare [options] filename

DESCRIPTION

       OnionShare  lets  you  anonymously  share files. This works either in send or in receive mode. OnionShare
       sets up use a Tor hidden service to either make files on your computer temporarily  accessible  over  the
       Internet,  or allows the uploading of files to your computer using a hidden service. OnionShare generates
       an unguessable URL to down- or upload files that you can share with your peers.

       In case of sharing with many peers, please enable "Public mode",  otherwise  OnionShare  might  interpret
       multiple accesses as an attack and shut down the hidden service.

       OnionShare can configured to run with it's built-in version of tor, a TorBrowser or system tor running in
       the background. By default, OnionShare uses the built-in version of Tor.

       In  the  case  of  OnionShare, the crypto key lives in /tmp/onionshare/tmpXXX/private_key. The .onion URL
       address itself is a fingerprint of the key, which lets the Tor network look up the public key  and  start
       an encrypted session. So as long as you transmit the OnionShare URL successfully, the recipient who loads
       it in Tor Browser gets an end-to-end encrypted session with the server.

       OnionShare's  default  behaviour  is  to  shut down the hidden service and to stop once the file has been
       downloaded. You can prevent this behaviour by invoking the --stay-open option. This can be useful if  you
       want multiple people to access the same file.

OPTIONS

       --help display a short help message and exit

       --local-only
              don't run a public hidden service, just run on localhost

       --receive
              Receive shares instead of sending them

       --stay-open
              don't exit after file has been successfully downloaded

       --stealth
              Create stealth onion service (advanced)

       --shutdown-timeout N
              Shut down the onion service after N seconds

       --config CONFIGFILE
              Path to a custom JSON config file (optional)

       --debug
              enable more verbose output

AUTHOR

       Manual page by Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike at debian dot org>

                                                 April 24, 2018                                    onionshare(1)