Sphinx-web is a mock mix system to demonstrate the sphinx mix packet format.
It uses the sphinx-js package which implements the Sphinx mix packet format core cryptographic functions in JavaScript.
At the moment the system consists of three parts.
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Relay Servers (mix nodes) which receive and process sphinx packets to pass on to the next node or to the final destination.
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A Directory Server that serves a signed list of sphinx nodes and corresponding public keys to clients.
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Sphinx Client. A web page that allows users to encode messages to send through the network of mix nodes. All encoding is done locally with JavaScript.
First install the dependencies and compile the browser code.
npm install --dev
grunt
Then you can start up the servers.
npm start
You can access the the sphinx client at http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser.
You can access the test mail server at http://127.0.0.1:1026 to view the received messages.
Sphinx-web includes a benchmark to test end to end performance. The benchmark server is a special node that routes messages through itself for five hops and measures the average time taken.
npm run benchmark