oxen-io/lokinet

Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.

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Lokinet

Lokinet is the reference implementation of LLARP (low latency anonymous routing protocol), a layer 3 onion routing protocol.

Installation instructions can be found here.

You can learn more about the high level, how to use it and the internals of the protocol here

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Copyright © 2018-2022 The Oxen Project
Copyright © 2018-2022 Jeff Becker
Copyright © 2018-2020 Rick V. (Historical Windows NT port and portions)

decentralized

decentralized-internet

dht

ipv4-network

ipv4-support

lokinet

onion-routing

overlay-network

vpn

Significant stargazers

Jon Schlinkert

4,971 followers · starred Nov 2021

Matt Joiner

805 followers · starred May 2025

Hoang Nguyen

128 followers · starred Jan 2023

Eugene San

33 followers · starred Oct 2022

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