PHPChat

A decentralized, peer-to-peer, encrypted chat in PHP.

Features

Peer-to-peer instant messaging.
Decentralized: See DHT and http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html.
Encryption: SSL
Send P2P random messages.
Addressbook: manage all conversation partners.

Install

Clone

git clone https://github.com/TheFox/phpchat.git
Change to your phpchat directory and run

composer install
You must forward TCP port 25000 (default) on your modem to your computer. After the chat has been started once there will be a settings.yml. Edit this file to change the incoming port.

Dependencies

Before running PHPChat, make sure you have all the needed dependencies installed on your system.

Here's a list of dependencies needed for PHPChat:

PHP >= 5.3
Composer

ToDo

Hashcash on connect. link_1 | link_2
Supernode over HTTP: no active process; just a http request, json interface. No GUI.
IMAP-server interface.
ReSSL after period/number of msgs. Reset the SSL passwords.
SSL sign public key to prove peer holds the private key.
Renew ssl_key_pub_get and ssl_key_pub_put.

Contribute

You're welcome to contribute to this project. Fork this project at https://github.com/TheFox/phpchat. You should read GitHub's How to Fork a Repo.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.