fluffychat (project is frozen)

General description

You can communicate with people by writing messages and sending different files. This chat provides rooms and private messages between users. Chat is protected by RSA encryption.

Also, you can run several chat entities on the same host. You have to just clone chat in different directories (it will be changed, of course). It's all because of database.db. When you are trying run another entity in the same directory as the first then database.db will be thinking that first entity and yours are the one entity (bad, I know)

For detailed description see DECOMPOSITION.md file.

Future

I want to completely change a structure of fluffychat in the future . For now, it's not really convinient tool and contains many grammar mistakes. Stay tuned, guys! Make fluffychat great again <3

Some details

Chat works only in local networks due to the fact that this is under development.

Network protocol of this chat is too naive. Because of that, I started chat_protocol repository. After this protocol will be finished network functionality of this chat will be replaced with chat_protocol implementation.

Requirements

• Python 3.*
  • netifaces
  • PyCrypto
  • PyQt5

Architecture

Here will be a little description about architecture.

Example of using

Here will be examples.

Where is log file?

Log file is app.log. You can see it by typing next:

$ vim app.log

How to run application

There are two ways of running chat. If you want to create a new chat, then you should run this:

$ python3 main.py [--create] [--recv-port R]

But if you want to join in existing chat, then you should know IP and connection port of a host sitting in this chat. Also you have to specify port for receiving messages. When you know all this stuff then run next:

$ python3 main.py [-h] [--create] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
               [--recv-port RECV_PORT] [--gui] [--dis-enc]

Argument	Description
--host	IP of a remote host
--port	Default connection port of a remote host
--recv-port	Port for receiving data from other hosts
--create	Key for creating new chat
--gui	Run chat in GUI mode
--dis-enc	Disable RSA encryption. It means when a host from the chat sends you a message it will not be encrypted for you.

Examples

To start typing any command you should at first press "enter" Below is placed example of creating a new chat

$ python3 main.py --create --recv-port 8080
[*] Please, specify your username(a-zA-Z_.):> merrychap
[*] Specify your root path for storing files:> /home/merrychap/Desktop/fluffychat
('192.168.0.102', 8080)

Type "@help" for list of commands with the descriptio

[*] Enter command:> @help

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Type commands with @ on the left side of a command.
List of commands:

+ help : Shows this output
+ room "room_name" : Switches to the room message mode. 
+ add_user : "username" "room_name"
+ users : Shows online users.
+ create_room "roomname" : Creates new room. 
+ user "username" : Switches to the user message mode. 
+ change_root_path "root path" : Changes the directory of storing files
+ change_visibility : Changes your visibility in the chat
+ remove_room "roomname" : Removes created room.
+ username "username" : Changes the current username. 
+ exit : Closes chat.
+ rooms : Shows available rooms.
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The next example is connecting to the existing chat.

$ python3 main.py --host 192.168.0.102 --port 8080 --recv-port 8080
*] Please, specify your username(a-zA-Z_.):> Holo
[*] Specify your root path for storing files:> /home/Holo/Desktop/fluffychat
('192.168.0.103', 8080)

Type "@help" for list of commands with the descriptio

[*] Enter command:> @users

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+ merrychap
+ Holo
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Already done

• Private messages
• Rooms
• Sending files
• RSA encryption
• Tests
• GUI