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Rust-chat-server
A Chat server writen in rust to allow communication between peers.
Features:
- implemented:
- json based API.
- Server introspection.
- Peer discovery.
- sending messages to connected clients.
- todo:
- Encryption to server.
- server to server meshing.
- asynchronous client managment instead of threaded approach.
Goals:
- Learn the rust programming lanaguage.
- Ownership: how that affects normal programming styles.
- Borrowing and references: how this affects shared state.
- Lifetimes: how this affects data retention and sharing.
- Learn how to create networked programs.
- Application level protocol: how to get two programs to communicate via TCP sockets.
- Socket handling: Discovering ways to handle multiple socket connections without affecting performance.
- Learn common encryption protocols.
- Adding support for encrypted sockets.
- Pros and cons of symetric and asymetric encryption.
- resolving common encryption flaws
Questoins: For questions please add a issue with the question label. It will eventually be responded to