catchat

A chat client using catshadow.

Installation

From Source

Make sure you have a working Go environment (Go 1.11 or higher is required). See the install instructions.

You will also need Qt5 and its development headers installed.

Dependencies (Ubuntu example)

apt-get --no-install-recommends install build-essential libglib2.0-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpulse-dev
apt-get --no-install-recommends install libqt*5-dev qt*5-dev qt*5-doc-html qml-module-qtquick*

Building catchat

export QT_PKG_CONFIG=true
go get -u -v -tags=no_env github.com/therecipe/qt/cmd/...
go get -d -u -v github.com/katzenpost/catchat
cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/katzenpost/catchat
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/qtdeploy build desktop

Building within a Docker container

Follow the build instructions above, but instead of the last command, run:

$(go env GOPATH)/bin/qtdeploy -docker build linux

Testing catchat

You can test catchat with a local mixnet. The recommended way to do this is to first run a docker based mixnet locally, see here:

https://github.com/katzenpost/docker

Once you get your mixnet running give it a couple of minutes to get fully connected so that it will route your messages. After that you can start catchat locally.

cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/katzenpost/catchat
./deploy/linux/catchat -f ../catshadow/testdata/catshadow.toml -s bob.state -g

As you can see here, this last command uses the catshadow configuration file from the catshadow git repo. Please aquire the catshadow repo so that you can use this configuration file which will work with the docker mixnet you are running:

https://github.com/katzenpost/catshadow

Run it

You only need to pass it the -g option the first time you run catchat so that it generates a new encrypted state file.

Usage of ./deploy/linux/catchat:
  -f string
     Path to the client config file. (default "katzenpost.toml")
  -g Generate the state file and then run client.
  -s string
     The catshadow state file path. (default "catshadow_statefile")

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