mtc (minimal-tor-chat)

An extremely minimalistic text post server for over-anonymous chatting

Dependencies

You will need to install the following tools before building mtc:

• Node.js
• npm
• bower
• pulp
• purs

  Installation

  After cloning this repository you will need to fetch a git submodule. This can be done with

  git submodule update
  

Execute the following commands to build mtc:

./install_deps.sh
./build.sh

Starting the server

To start the server just execute

./run.sh

By default it will listen on port 8080.

To specify a different port you can execute

PORT=XXXX ./run.sh

e.g.

PORT=1337 ./run.sh

to listen on port 1337 instead.

Install dependencies, build and run

To install all (missing) dependencies, rebuild the program and execute it, you can also use

./full_run.sh

Annotations

The mtc server is preconfigured to run only through the “Tor” network. If you want to use this server through the clear web or in a local network you should follow this guide.