SChat - Secure chat mobile application.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Video Demo
• Technologies Used
• Features
• How to install and run the project
• Acknowledgements
• License

Introduction

SChat is a fantastic messaging solution for security-conscious mobile users. It's a free all-in-one messaging and attachments and media messages solution that uses its own end-to-end encryption algorithm.

SChat use ECDH to generate shared-secret to encrypt and decrypt messages. The attachments are encrypted via RSA key and AES before archiving on IPFS.

This is the Software Requirements Document

Video Demo

You can have a look with SChat through the video.

Technologies Used

SChat use the following technologies, frameworks and development techniques:

• Backend - NestJs
• Mobile - React Native
• Database - MongoDB
• Ethereum blockchain - Ethereum
• IPFS network - IPFS
• Project Management - Azure DevOps

Features

Features on Schat:

• Log in
• Registration
• Encrypted chat
• Send encrypted files

How to install and run the project

To clone and run this application, you'll need Npm - package manager, NodeJs, Visual Studio Code, Truffle, IPFS installed on your computer.

*** Run Back-end

$ cd backend
$ npm install
$ npm run start:dev

*** Run Front-end

$ cd frontend
$ expo start

*** Run Ethereum Virtual Node

Open ganache 

*** Run IPFS Node

# create new ipfs node
$ ipfs init 

# run ipfs node
$ ipfs daemon 

The server is listening at port 3000 

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to NestJS for supporting us with NestJS document
• Thanks to Npm - package manager for supporting us to use library community
• Thanks to React Native
• Thanks to Ethereum
• Thanks to IPFS
• Thanks to Stackoverflow for supporting us
• Thanks to Github for supporting us control application's versions

Development Team

• Tran Quoc Thang
• Nguyen Huu Phat

License

Copyright © 2021.
This project is MIT licensed.