micro_anon

README

Anonymous network with 200 lines of code

About project

The M-A (Micro-Anonymous) network is based on a queue-based task (also as HL). The implementation uses only the standard library of the Go language (also does not call the components of the go-peer library in any way). The goal of this network is to minimalize the source code so that even a novice programmer can understand the entire mechanism of its functioning.

usage: 
    ./main [nickname] [host:port]
where:
    nickname - prints on another nodes
    host:port - listen address

More information about M-A in the habr.com/ru/articles/745256/

How it works

Figure 1. Chat node1 with node2.

In _init/ directory should be exists priv.key (can be generated with keygen program), auth.key (key of network) and connects.txt (list of http nodes). In _keys/ directory should be exists public keys of nodes. The file names can be any. The attach to the public key is made via the attach$ command. By default program attach self public key. Therefore, if you write the send$ command, you will send a message to yourself.

Initialization

$ make genkey # creates priv.key, pub.key
$ cp pub.key ../_keys/node1.key # you can use public key to yourself
$ echo http://localhost:8080 > connects.txt # you can connect to yourself
$ echo "secret_key" > auth.key # set network key

Build and run

$ cd ./cmd/micro_anon
$ make build # create ma, ma_[arch=amd64,arm64]_[os=linux,windows,darwin] and copy to ./bin
$ make run # ./bin/ma init_node 127.0.0.1:8080

Example

> send$ test1!
>
node1: test1!
> attach$ node1.key
ok
> send$ hello, world!
> 
node1: hello, world!
>