Python-Secure-Chatroom

About

A chatroom application written in Python using TKinter & based on RabbitMQ broker using open-LDAP for authentication

Learning objectives

When we've completed this Code Pattern, you will understand how to:

Objective 1: LDAP server configuration, helping us manage user authentication.
Objective 2: How to set up an authority server that accepts certification requests, creates them, then signs them in order to verify their state
Objective 3: How to use RabbitMQ for chatting, which is an enterprise level tool.

Flow

When thinking of chatroom capabilities, our elegant application you will need the following set of features:

1- Client side :
      . Register -> Enter credentials (first time)
      . Login / block authentication (redirect)
      . View all active users
      . Select user-> chat area opened / Select room
      . Using RSA technique to encrypt/decrypt all messages sent between clients.
      . See message date & time
      . Disconnect && quit application

2- Server side :

Register user :
      . Add new user to the active directory via LDAP
      . Create PKI -> get a x509 certificaton via authority server
      . Start communication with the chat/Rabbitmq server
Login user :
. Enter credentials -> verify user in the active directory via LDAP
. Verify the signature via authority server
Chatting :
. Encrypt /decrypt messages while exchanging them between clients

Features:

Save a log of the chat
Clear the chat history
Emoji button with various emojies to choose from and use
Change your username
- revert to default username
- view your username history
- clear your username history
Style Customization
- choose a custom font
- choose from 6 different color themes
- revert to default layout
Select a default window size of program for everytime it opens
- return to the default window size whenever

Dependencies

RabbitMQ: Messaging Broker based on AMQP protocol
pycryptodome: well-documented python library for encryption/decryption..
OpenSSL: a python package that provides a high-level interface to the functions in the OpenSSL library such as X509 certs generation.
Tkinter: Standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit.
cryptography: python library for X509 certs with good API
OpenLDAP: is an implementation under ubuntu for LDAP protocol
Pika: Rabbitmq python client.

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Setup

You have multiple options to setup your own instance:

Run it locally

1. Open LDAP server in your machine

Clone the TalkyWaly repository locally. In a terminal, run:

$ git clone https://github.com/khalilmejri/talkywalky.git

Our application would have the following folder structure:

 TalkyWalky/
   └── CA/
     ├── ...
     ├── ca_server.py
     ├── ...
     └── certificate_ca.pem
   ├── ...
   ├── server.py
   ├── main.py
   ├── chat.py
   ├── requirements.txt
   ├── ...
   └── client_cert.pem

Installation

# install node modules for the API
$ pip install -r requirements.txt --no-index --find-links file:///tmp/packages

2. Run rabbitMQ service

$ systemctl service rabbitmq start

3. Create an Instance of Messaging-server

$ ./server.py

4. Create an Instance of Authority-server

$ ./CA/ca_server.py

Get your ldap domain string. Almost all your servers need it; keep it safe!

5. Run

Finally, start the main app enjoy :)

# start app client
$ ./main.py

You can now connect to ldap:<ur_ldap_host_address>:389 to start chatting.

Refs

http://www.grotan.com/ldap/python-ldap-samples.html
https://turbogears.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/ldap-auth.html

khalilMejri/TalkyWalky