End-to-End Chat Application

This project is a secure and privacy-focused chat application developed in C++. It ensures encrypted communication between users with a focus on security.

Features

• End-to-End Encryption
• User Authentication
• TLS Support
• Multithreaded Server
• Client-Server Architecture
• Multiple options for choosing how server starts
• Client ip blacklisting and ratelimiting
• Nice chat ui for client

Requirements

• Docker (if not on ubuntu version 23.10 or higher)

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/galacticoder/endtoend.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd endtoend

3. Build the project using Makefile:

   make

If on ubuntu version 23.10 or higher then you can compile and run the server or client by:

First make sure your in the src directory and then compile using the bottom steps

Client:

make client

Server:

make server

Docker Setup (if not on ubuntu version 23.10 or higher)

1. Build the Docker image:

   sudo docker build -t NAME .

2. Run the Docker image:

   sudo docker run --network host -it NAME /bin/bash

Usage

• Run the server:

  ./server

• Run the client:

  ./client

Future goals for this project

This project is not fully complete

I want to fix all issues i opened for this project and i want to add alot more features and make it work from one machine to be able to connect to a server on another machine because i would need to figure out how to make the client's server's reachable by the main server for client pinging

License

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal License.