noirdemort / lacr

Local Area Comms Relay, Crypto-secured LAN chat

Local Area Comms Relay (LACR)

Uses RSA to secure communications via temporary channels. Http Polling for message retrieval. Added file transfer support

#TODO: - Write some USAGE Documentation.

Issues

- CLI Doesn't show arrows after receiving a message but functionality is still there
- Handle Https using requests locally
- Handle application quitting neatly, right now application doesn't release thread lock

Extend

- switch crytography to libsodium library

LibSodium

lacr's Issues

Handle HTTPS Locally

I have generated local certificates and keys and obviously requests can't verify it, since those are generated locally.
For generating certificates:
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -out cert.pem -keyout key.pem -days 365
How to ignore certificate verification in requests as can be done in browsers?

Add Documentation for Usage Description.

Add comprehensive documentation letting users know how to use application and extending shortcuts.

Fix CLI view after printing chat

After receiving and printing text, prompting arrows don't show up until another text is sent.

Proper Application Exit

While using exit(0) to quit application, thread locks won't release, and hold the app in hanging state continuously polling. Fix the current code to facilitate a proper application exit.

Create a PyPi Package

Help convert the repo for proper command line usage and building a PyPi package for installation.

Can someone take the task of converting it to a proper pypi package?

Switching to Libsodium

Is pycryptodome good enough? Should I switch to libsodium?
I am looking for LAN based use only, so don't want to put too much time in this crypto-lib part.
Any suggesstions?

Sending Files Command

Add functionality to send files via cli, use openssl to encrypt and decrypt file and requests to send it server.
Server should have separate methods to handle file as well as cli should have separate polling for file and ask for permission before fetching.

Max File Size should be around 20MB, I guess.