vvidic / glome

Generic Low Overhead Message Exchange (GLOME) is a protocol providing secure authentication and authorization for low dependency environments.

Generic Low Overhead Message Exchange (GLOME)

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Generic Low Overhead Message Exchange (GLOME) is a protocol providing secure authentication and authorization for low dependency environments.

This repository consists of a number of components of the GLOME ecosystem.

Documentation:

• GLOME protocol
• GLOME Login protocol

Core libraries:

• libglome C
• PyGLOME Python
• jGLOME Java
• GLOME-Go Go

Binaries:

• glome-cli CLI utility for interacting with the core GLOME protocol
• glome-login Replacement of login(1) implementing GLOME Login protocol

In addition to the above components there are libraries planned for Java and Go as well as a turnkey server for self-hosted GLOME login.

Building

Building the GLOME library requires

• Compiler conforming to C99 (e.g. gcc, clang)
• Meson >=0.49.2
• OpenSSL headers >=1.1.1
• glib-2.0 (for glome-login as well as tests)
• libconfuse (for glome-login)

Instructions

GLOME is built using Meson. First, initialize the Meson build directory. You only have to do this once per Meson configuration.

$ meson build

NOTE: You can customize the installation target by passing the --prefix flag.

Build the shared library libglome.so and the command line utility glome inside the build root ./build.

$ ninja -C build

Now run the tests.

$ meson test -C build

Install both the binary and the library into the configured prefix (the default prefix is /usr/local/, which will require admin privileges).

$ meson install -C build