Encrypt Chatroom

cs460-nut

About

• This project is a web base chatroom that will allow you to create secure chatrooms and two-factor phone authentication to join.
• The SMS token for verification expires in 30 second (because of a free trial account of the twilio API we are utilizing), so user has to be quick to enter the code.
• Msgs from the chatrooms will be encrypted over the server to prevent third-man data intervention or stealing.

Create Room

• Generates a random number as a key to be passed into the hash function, this hash value will be the URL endpoint.
• User can share this key with others to join the same room.
• Messages of one room are not visible in other rooms.

Join Room

• Get key in some fashion (email, text, pigeon carrier, etc)
• Pass key to hash
• Hash function will send request to Twilio API and user will have 30 seconds to type in key (received by SMS) for two factor auth.

Tech Stack

• Node.js and Express for the server.
• Socket.io to utilize web sockets to make private chat rooms.
• Twilio API for SMS verification. (If text does not send properly, just look at the console, 2 Factor Key is printed there)

Feel free to look at our commit history to see the contributions made by each team member.

Installation

• clone into the repository or download as a zip file.
• Navigate into source folder and type in the terminal npm install to install all the package dependencies.
• Run node app.js or nodemon app.js if you have nodemon installed (do npm install -g nodemon to install it).
• Open your web browser and go to localhost:8080 to see it in action.
• Create a room to make a new chatroom and click on join room to enter an exiting chatroom.

License

CS 460... group?