adria0/ssb-study

Secure Scuttlebutt study notes

ssb-study

• FAQ
  • https://ssbc.github.io/docs/ssb/faq.html
• Protocol Guide
  • https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

The default implementation of ssb is in javascript.

secret-stack

Glue for everything

MuxRPC

RPC (as explained in the protocol guide) and multiplexing

secret-handshake

Handshake (as explained in the protocol guide)

Plugins

RPCs are implemented as plugins for secret-stack.

https://github.com/ssbc/secret-stack/blob/master/PLUGINS.md

ssb-blobs

• [ "blobs", "..." ]

ssb-feed

• legacy?

ssb-db

• Append only db (feed)

RPC

Method types:

foo: 'async',        //a function with a callback.
bar: 'sync',         //a function that returns a value
                     //(note this is converted to an async function for the client)
allTheFoos: 'source' //a source pull-stream (aka, readable)
writeFoos: 'sink',   //a sink pull-stream (aka, writable)
fooPhone: 'duplex',  //a duplex pull-stream