Tina-lel / Berzelius

An end to end encrypted chat room, supporting multiple users written entirely in bash with the help of socat.

Berzelius

An end to end encrypted chat room using GPG's AES256 cypher, supporting multiple users written entirely in bash with the help of socat.

Dependencies:

bash

socat

gpg

Ussage:

git clone https://github.com/Tina-lel/Berzelius

server:

cd Berzelius/server

chmod +x server

open up "config" in a text editor and choose a port number to replace "1234", "1235" and "12346", and optionally forward these ports in your gateways configuration page, to communicate outside of your internal network.

./server

see "Commands" for a list of valid commands

entering a password and running the server:

pass

the password file was generated in (script location)/gpg you should be careful with it (ITS PLAIN TEXT)

start

if everything went fine, and the server didn't return any errors, you can test the connection with a client

client:

cd Berzelius/client/

chmod +x client

open up "config" in a text editor and edit the "example" server function to point to a machine running the server script on the same ports, if you changed the function name or added new ones, you additionally need to edit the array at the top with the new names (seperated by spaces). you can add as many server functions as you'd like.

./client

select a server with the keybinds set in the config (defaults are UP=w DOWN=s QUIT=q)

enter the server's password

if the server was running, and everything went fine, you should now see a blank screen, with a little arrow.

in order to chat, type something and press enter. type "!q" to disconnect and exit (CTRL+C also works)

Commands:

server:

help: this message

pass: set password

start: start the server

stop: kill the server

exit: exit the script

client (in chat):

!help / !h (help message)

!scroll / !s (view chat history)

!color / !c (pick message color)

!neofetch / !n (send neofetch)

!refresh / !r (refresh chat)"

!back / !b (disconnect and return)

!quit / !q (disconnect and exit)