nim-chat-poc/README.md
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# Nim Chat POC
This is the technical proof of a modular e2ee chat protocol using Waku. You can find discussion and details [here](https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/73)
See [EchoBot](./examples/bot_echo.nim) for a minimal client side usage example.
## Quick Start
```
# Build Dependencies and link libraries
make update
# Build executables
make all
# Run the Text Interface
./build/tui --name=<unique_id>
```
## Details
### Message Flow
To establish a secure conversation, Saro and Raya need to:
1. Find each others identityKeys
2. Agree on a secret key, and location to communicate
For this technical proof, recipient identity keys are exchanged out of bound via an invite link. More complex identity systems will be explored in the future. ..
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant S as Saro
participant R as Raya
Note over R,S: Discovery
R -->> S: Send Invite Link via established channel
Note over R,S: Initialization
S ->> R: PrivateV1 Invite
Note over R,S: Operation
loop
par
R->> S: Send Message
and
S->> R: Send Message
end
end
```
## Limitations
1. `.proto` files are included in this repo due to complications in importing nested packages using `?subdir=`. Once resolved there will be a single definition of protocol types.
1. Messages are sent using waku, however wakunode discovery has not been implemented. As a stopgap a manual discovery process based on staticpeers is used.
## License
[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)