# Chatty The idea is the following: - tcp server that you can send messages to - history upon connecting - date of messages sent - client for reading the messages and sending them at the same time - rooms - encryption - authentication ## client - [ ] bug: when connecting two clients of the same account - [ ] bug: wrapping does not work and displays nothing if there is no screen space - [ ] bug: reconnect does not work when server does not know id - [ ] convert tabs to spaces - [ ] bug: when using lots of markup characters - [ ] newline support - [ ] resizable box ## server - [ ] check that fds arena does not overflow - free clients which disconnected and use free list to give them space - [ ] check if when sending and the client is offline (due to connection loss) what happens - [ ] timeout on recv? - [ ] use threads to handle clients/ timeout when receiving because a client could theoretically stall the entire server. - [ ] do not crash on errors from clients - implement error message? - timeout on recv with setsockopt - [ ] theoretically two clients can connect at the same time. The uni/bi connections should be negotiated. ## common - [ ] use IP address / domain - [ ] chat history - [ ] rooms - [ ] compression ## Protocol - see `protocol.h` for more info - The null terminator must be sent with the string. - The text can be arbitrary length ## Keybinds - `Ctrl+C` | `Ctrl+D`: quits - `Ctrl+U`: Erase input line - `Ctrl+W`: Erase word behind cursor - `Ctrl+Y`: Paste clipboard into input field ## Resources I used for building this - source code I looked at: - https://github.com/git-bruh/matrix-tui - https://github.com/NikitaIvanovV/ictree - https://github.com/termbox/termbox2 - *mmap & gdb*: [Tsoding - "Why linux has this syscall?" ](https://youtu.be/sFYFuBzu9Ow?si=CX32IzFVA8OPDZvS) - *pthreads*: [C for dummies](https://c-for-dummies.com/blog/?p=5365) - *unicode and wide characters*: [C for dummies](https://c-for-dummies.com/blog/?p=2578) - *sockets*: [Nir Lichtman - Making Minimalist Chat Server in C on Linux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY) - syscall manpages `man` - UTF8 Comprssion: [Casey Muratori - Simple RLE Compressor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikLEdc3C1c&t=6312s) ### To Read #### C Programming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtFGa6XJDU - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/11/ - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/13/ - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/ #### Encryption w/ Compression - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME - https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2283/crypto-compression-algorithms - openpgp https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4880 - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/crime-how-to-beat-the-beast-successor - https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2012/09/14/crime-information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls - Algorithms: *Symmetric* - AESI - Blowfish - Twofish - Rivest Cipher (RC4) *Assymetric* - Data Encryption Standard (DES) - ECDSA - RSA - Diffie-Hellman - PGP _Hash_ - Deflate - Huffman Coding - LZ77 Other - ChaCha20-Poly1305 - AES(-GCM)