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Opened by Georg Koppen@gk

Tor Launcher only accepts HEXDIGIT passwords for controller

We currently give the advice to double quote the password for the Tor controller in the start-tor-browser script which seems to be a good thing given the trouble with quoting correctly. But this does not work (I wonder if it actually ever worked). The problem is that Tor Launcher is expecting a HEXDIGIT password. Using deadbeef is fine but

password[i] = parseInt(aHexPassword.substr(i * 2, 2), 16);

does not like things like test or '"test"' and is e.g. reporting for the former NaN, NaN which breaks the hashed control password option (the argument aHexPassword is spoiling the bug hunt a bit but I was not affected by it :) ). That in turn breaks the authentication and Tor Browser won't start.

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