TorBox ChatSecure

Encrypted web chat room to communicate in group or one-to-one. Similar to text apps, it includes end-to-end encryption on all messages, using auto-generated keys on the client side.

Run

Production

For this example, SERVICE is the name of the service

Start TCS

For running in productive mode, use the tcs command.

Example:

./tcs -n SERVICE -od hash.onion

The following files will be created

• Pid file in ./pid/SERVICE.pid,
• Database in ./db/SERVICE.db
• Unix socket in /var/run/tcs_SERVICE.sock

Stop TCS

To stop TCS, kill the pid using the pid file. This will do a graceful shutdown and delete the created files.

Example: kill `cat ./pid/SERVICE.pid`

or

pkill -F ./pid/SERVICE.pid

For more info run

./tcs --help

Usage: tcs [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -n, --name TEXT           Onion Service Name
  -od, --onion-domain TEXT  Onion domain where TCS will be published
  --dev BOOLEAN             Run in development mode (Default: 0)
  --debug BOOLEAN           Run in debug mode (--dev must be true) (Default:
                            0)
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Development

ReactJS

webclient directory contains react application

cd webclient
yarn
yarn run dev

Docker backend

Run the python backend in docker in port 5000. Access from browser to this port will show the latest build of the frontend

docker-compose up

Python backend

chatsecure backend run in flask + socketio

pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

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Library dependency

Just for reference

$ sudo apt install python3-pgpy