Hi everyone,
This is my second status report on the CONIKS for Tor Messenger project.
During the last two weeks I’ve been working on several things:
1. Continue implementing the Merkle prefix tree module and fix issues based on comments from Marcela, Arlo and Ismail. These are still some works need to be done including: - Using an abstract cryptography library [1] instead of specific primitives - Add hooks for storage backend [2]. Currently, I’m discussing with my mentors (Marcela and Arlo) about how to do it.
2. Spend time to studying current implementation of coname/dename [3, 4]. It would help me so much when I go to implement the CONIKS library (e.g., the server struct, server config and http front)
3. Work on some other modules of libconiks library (HTTP server and server config)
4. Implement the Twitter bot for registration protocol. I used a 3rd client library for Twitter APIs [5]. This bot uses the Twitter streaming APIs to listen for new coming registration message, as described in the account verification protocol.
The source code of (3) and (4) is not pushed to the github repo yet since I’m still doing on these modules and they are not ready for integrating into the library.
My focus on two next weeks is mainly to implement the registration protocol and continue refining the Merkle tree library.
Best, Huy
— [1] github.com/dedis/crypto/ [2] https://github.com/coniks-sys/libmerkleprefixtree-go/issues/4 [3] https://github.com/yahoo/coname [4] https://github.com/andres-erbsen/dename [5] https://github.com/dghubble/go-twitter