Java based TOR client without the TOR browser bundle and with a SOCKS5 proxy.
Compatible with Eclipse.
To start the Orchid SOCKS5 proxy, perform the following:
java -jar orchid-version.jar
Orchid will first attempt to establish a connection to the Tor network and gather directory information. Once it has enough directory information it will begin building circuits.
To test Orchid, you can tell your browser to use Orchid as a proxy (Using something like FoxyProxy or ProxyOmega allows the use of wildcards (.*.) which make accessing .onion sites easier).
Please Note: Orchid + your browser alone isn't a secure replacement for the Tor Browser bundle, which has many other enhancements beyond Tor itself.
Example: By default DNS lookups are not sent over a configured SOCKS5 proxy in Firefox. You can change this potentially de-anonymizing default configuration by going to the URL about:config and setting the property network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true (this is already done in the Tor Browser).
Orchid includes a info status/dashboard option to observe the internal state of Tor. To start this, set the following property when the JAR is run:
java -Dcom.subgraph.orchid.dashboard.port=10000 orchid-version.jar
To access the dashboard, just connect to the port (10000) with netcat. (netcat is usually installed by default in Linux. It can be used with netcat [options] host port check out netcat help or man netcat for more info on that specific tool.
The Orchid Tor client exposes a SocketFactory that can be used within a JVM application.