feat(dashmate): run a Tor sidecar so Core reaches onion peers and publishes an onion service

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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Dashmate-managed masternodes and evonodes have no way to take part in the Tor side of the Dash P2P network. This adds a Tor sidecar, on by default, so Core can reach .onion peers and publish an onion service of its own for inbound connections.

This is a dual-stack feature. The node keeps its public IPv4 address, and the ProTx address is unchanged. Dash Core requires an IPv4 address in the masternode registration and checks it against its local address at startup (src/active/masternode.cpp), peers only ever dial the primary core_p2p entry, Platform parses the masternode service as a SocketAddr and Tenderdash dials plain TCP. An onion-only masternode therefore needs Core, rust-dashcore, Drive and Tenderdash changes and V24 activation first. This PR gives operators the part that works today: onion connectivity on top of the IPv4 identity.

What was done?

• New config section core.tor with enabled (default true), docker.image (osminogin/tor-simple:0.4.9.11 pinned by its multi-arch index digest) and control.password (random on setup). Schema, base defaults, and a migration keyed 4.2.1 that backfills the section for existing configs, including ones a development build stamped 4.2.0.
• docker-compose.tor.yml overlay, included by generateEnvs when enabled. The core_tor service runs with network_mode: service:core, so Tor's SOCKS and control ports live on Core's loopback and nothing Tor-related is reachable from the host or other containers. Tor state is a named volume.
• templates/core/tor/torrc.dot renders SocksPort 127.0.0.1:9050, ControlPort 127.0.0.1:9051 and a HashedControlPassword. The hash is computed in src/tor/hashTorControlPassword.js (Tor's iterated-salted S2K) and verified against tor --hash-password output in a unit test, so the plaintext never appears in torrc.
• dash.conf gains onion=127.0.0.1:9050, listenonion=1, torcontrol=127.0.0.1:9051, torpassword=… when enabled, and listenonion=0 when disabled. proxy= and onlynet= are deliberately not set: clearnet peers and quorum traffic stay direct, so enabling Tor cannot cause PoSe penalties from exit latency. Core creates the onion service itself over the control port and persists the key in its data directory, so the address is stable across restarts.
• dashmate status core shows an Onion service row (from getnetworkinfo.localaddresses); the JSON output gains torEnabled and onionService.
• dashmate config create gives the new config its own control password instead of copying the source's.
• dashmate setup gains --[no-]enable-tor. The mainnet/testnet flow asks a yes/no question (default Yes) when the flag is absent; the local preset enables it unless --no-enable-tor is given. Opt out on a running node with dashmate config set core.tor.enabled false and dashmate restart.
• Docs: docs/config/core.md (new Tor section) and docs/services/core.md.

Image audit: the osminogin/tor-simple Dockerfile is apk add --no-cache curl tor on alpine:edge and nothing else; the repo's only changes in two years are VERSION bumps. The published amd64 layer contains no setuid files or scripts, and its /usr/bin/tor is byte-identical (sha256 23ea7c64…) to a fresh install of Alpine's tor-0.4.9.11-r0 package. The image carries buildkit SLSA provenance naming the GitHub commit it was built from. It is not signed, so the digest pin is what makes it immutable.

How Has This Been Tested?

Unit: 828 passing in packages/dashmate (yarn test:unit), including new tests for the hash routine (recorded tor --hash-password vector), the rendered dash.conf/torrc in both states, the compose file selection, the status scope onion lookup, and the migration (adds the section to a 4.1.1 config, leaves an existing section alone). A copy of a real ~/.dashmate/config.json from 4.1.x was migrated: every config loads, has Tor enabled, and has its own control password.

End to end on a fresh 4-node local network set up with dashmate setup local --enable-tor and started with dashmate group start:

• All four core_tor sidecars reached Bootstrapped 100% and reported healthy.
• Every Core logged Authentication successful and ADD_ONION successful and published a v3 address, visible in getnetworkinfo.localaddresses and in dashmate status core.
• getnetworkinfo.networks shows onion reachable=true proxy=127.0.0.1:9050; IPv4 has no proxy.
• addnode <local_2 onion>:19899 onetry from local_1 produced a peer with network=onion on local_1 and an inbound network=onion peer on local_2, with subver=/Dash Core:23.1.8/ and headers synced on both sides. Nodes then found each other over Tor on their own (local_1 ended with two outbound onion peers and two inbound).
• All three masternodes stayed READY and the chain kept advancing.
• dashmate restart --config local_1 republished the same onion address.
• With Tor disabled the rendered dash.conf differs from the previous template by exactly one line, listenonion=0.

Upgrade path, on the same network: stopped it, stripped the core.tor section from every config and stamped the file 4.1.1, then ran an ordinary dashmate command followed by dashmate group start. The migration enabled Tor on all four nodes with distinct passwords, re-rendered dash.conf and torrc, and the start brought up the sidecars from the digest-pinned image. The full connectivity check was then repeated on that network: all four onion services republished with the same addresses as before the upgrade, onion peers connected in both directions with completed handshakes, and all three masternodes stayed READY.

CI note: this PR comes from a fork, so the Build Docker images and Dashmate E2E tests jobs are skipped (they need repository secrets). The dashmate unit and lint jobs ran and passed; the E2E coverage above is local.

Breaking Changes

None in the API sense, but a behaviour change worth calling out: Tor is on by default and the migration enables it for existing nodes too. After upgrading, every dashmate node pulls a Tor image, joins the Tor network, and publishes an onion service. Operators who do not want that set core.tor.enabled to false before restarting.

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Tor sidecar integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration defaults and migration packages/dashmate/configs/..., packages/dashmate/src/config/..., packages/dashmate/test/unit/config/configFile/...	Adds the required core.tor configuration, enables Tor by default, and migrates existing configs with generated control passwords.
Setup, templates, and Docker runtime packages/dashmate/src/commands/setup.js, packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/setup/..., packages/dashmate/src/tor/..., packages/dashmate/src/templates/..., packages/dashmate/docker-compose.tor.yml, packages/dashmate/test/unit/templates/..., packages/dashmate/test/unit/tor/..., packages/dashmate/test/unit/config/generateEnvsFactory.spec.js	Adds setup controls, Tor password hashing, Core template settings, conditional compose generation, and the core_tor service.
Onion service status packages/dashmate/src/status/..., packages/dashmate/test/unit/status/scopes/core.spec.js	Reports Tor state and extracts the onion service address from Core network information.
Documentation packages/dashmate/docs/config/core.md, packages/dashmate/docs/services/core.md	Documents Tor configuration, sidecar behavior, and service networking.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 00b8f

Tor is enabled by default, but some created and migrated configurations can use non-unique control credentials. This weakens control-port authentication and should be corrected before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Dashmate
  participant Core
  participant Tor
  User->>Dashmate: run setup with Tor enabled
  Dashmate->>Core: render onion and control settings
  Dashmate->>Tor: start core_tor sidecar
  Tor->>Core: provide loopback SOCKS and control ports
  Core->>Tor: request onion service
  Core-->>Dashmate: expose onion address in network info
  Dashmate-->>User: show onion service status

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In `@packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getBaseConfigFactory.js`:
- Line 129: Update ConfigFile.createConfig() or the config creation path to
generate a unique Tor control password for each config before the cloned base
options are persisted, replacing the static torpassword default while preserving
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Superseded by #4622, the same branch pushed to dashpay/platform so the image build and Dashmate E2E jobs run in CI.

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