TitaniumHocker/telegraph

Terminal P2P messenger implemented in C

telegraph

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Terminal P2P messenger implemented in C.

This project was created for education purposes.

** WORK IN PROGRESS **

DEFAULTPOST: 1858

Features:

• Basic messaging
• Minimalistic text/terminal based UI
• P2P connection between clients
• SSL/TLS e2e encryption

Build requrements:

• C compiler with standard library, gcc for example
• gnutls

Links to read for developing:

• Simple UDP multicast example in C
• Изучая go: пишем p2p мессенджер со сквозным шифрованием
• Analysis of P2P: How to communicate between two terminals without public IP?
• TCP hole punching
• Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators
• Traversal Using Relays around NAT
• Simple threadpool implementation
• Building from different source folders to different target folders
• passing a struct over TCP (SOCK_STREAM) socket in C
• A simple UDP-based NAT hole punching example for C
• Peer-to-Peer Programming
• Resources for Developing P2P Protocols across NAT
• Developing P2P Protocols across NAT
• Hole Punch: UDP NAT Punching
• UDP Hole Punching Proof implementations
• UDP Hole Punching Examples

Links to watch for developing:

• Creating a Peer to Peer Network in C
• Multithreading with a Thread Pool in C
• About byteorder
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) Networks - Basic Algorithms
• Introduction to Decentralized P2P Apps
• How to write a multithreaded server in C (threads, sockets)
• Multithreaded Server Part 2: Thread Pools
• How to write a multithreaded webserver using condition variables (Part 3)
• How one thread listens to many sockets with select in C.
• Safety and Speed Issues with Threads. (pthreads, mutex, locks)