Welcome to Lightnion’s documentation!

Introduction

Lightnion is a JavaScript library that you can include on your webpage to let any modern browser make anonymous requests. Lightnion uses an untrusted proxy to interact with the Tor network. This proxy converts between protocols (Websockets to pure TCP). This repository also contains a Python Lightnion Tor client that we have been using for testing.

WARNING: At the moment Lightnion is alpha-level research software. Do not use it in production, or for anything that really requires anonymity. You are, however, more than welcome to experiment with Lightnion. Please provide feedback opening issues or writing to the authors.

Contents

• Deployment
  • Prerequisites
    • Test on local machine
    • Test on real environment
  • Installation
    • Installation of the Proxy
    • Installing Chutney (for testing locally)
    • Building the JavaScript Client
  • Testing Lightnion Locally
  • Web Server configuration
  • Automatic Startup and Process Monitoring

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page