Rosella

About

Rosella is a small ircd (Internet Relay Chat Daemon). It partially implements RFC1459, but will never be fully compliant.

Rosella is intended to provide a portable, light-weight, near-zero-conf ircd capable of handling many simultaneous connections, whilst providing as much privacy for its users as possible.

Rosella only communicates with clients over SSL/TLS connections, therefore an x.509 certificate and private key are required for operation. Proper key handling and certificate checking is the responsibility of the users. Rosella cannot protect you from stupidity or untrustworthy CA's.

Features

Rosella is a stand-alone server, and does not support server→server communication or services→server communication. Basic services are expected to be provided by IRC bots.

The following channel modes are supported:

• s - Secret. The channel is hidden from /LIST unless you are already in it.
• n - No external. Only users in the channel may send messages to it.
• t - Topic Locked. Only operators may set the topic.
• m - Moderated. Only users with voice or operators may talk.

The following irc commands are supported:

• INFO
• JOIN
• KICK
• KILL
• LIST
• MODE
• NICK
• OPER
• PART
• PRIVMSG
• QUIT
• TOPIC
• USER
• VERSION

Building

To fetch the source code, ensure you have Go 1.1.2 or later installed, and your $GOPATH properly configured.

go get github.com/eXeC64/Rosella
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/eXeC64/Rosella

You can then browse and review the source code at your leisure before compiling it by running go build.

Usage

Command line options can be found by running Rosella -h.

x.509 Certificate

Rosella expects you to provide a valid x.509 certificate and private key. You can generate these yourself with openssl, or obtain one from a certificate authority you trust.

Auth File

The auth file provides a list of usernames and hashed passwords that the /OPER command will accept. The format is one username and password pair per line. Lines starting with a # are ignored as comments, as are blank lines. The password is hashed with bcrypt. Username and password are placed on the same line and separated by a single space, as such:

#This line is a comment
username1 bcrypt_hashed_password

#Another comment, blank lines are ignored
username2 bcrypt_hashed_password
username3 bcrypt_hashed_password

Treat this file as you would treat a private key file.

Design Principles

• Rosella will not spy upon its users, or log them in any way.

• Rosella will not communicate with any users in plaintext.

• Rosella will not provide any mechanism for identifying other users beyond their nicknames.

• Rosella will not allow any user to spy upon any other user.

• Rosella's source code will be kept as easy to review as possible.

Contributing

Patches and pull requests for new features and code clean ups are welcome as long as they follow the design principles.

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Harry Jeffery

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.