Lumina is a built-in function recognition feature of the well-known IDA pro disassembler that relies on an online signature database. Unfortunately, the database server is not available for local private use. Have you ever raged at a misstyped hotkey that sent your database content to the Lumina servers, wondered how it works, what kind of data is sent, and wished for a local server under your control? This blog post might answer some of your questions.
