RISHABH CHAUHAN | Ockam Routing & Messaging Protocols In TypeScript

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Hii, I am Rishabh Chauhan, a pre-final year computer science undergrad student from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology. I have been working on Web Authentication for the past couple of months (using the API & also using Firebase). I also have experience in Typescript, Javascript, MongoDB, React, Nodejs, C++ and have built projects related to the same.

I want to learn more about Ockam Routing & Messaging Protocols In TypeScript. As far as I could get the Ockam Routing provides a framework to send messages between Ockam Workers and allows workers to forward messages using onward routes and trace return routes.
However, since it's up to the workers and transports to forward messages, the Ockam Routing protocol does not guarantee that messages sent will be delivered. Different transports have different delivery properties, routes may forward a message through multiple machines over the network which makes it hard to reason about delivery over complex routes.

Looking forward to having a discussion and working under the Externship for Ockam.
Thanks!

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About Me

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Resume

Chauhan_Rishabh_Resume.pdf

First of all, thank you @mrinalwadhwa for creating such amazing documentation for Ockam. It really helped me a lot to head-start my understanding for End-to-End Encryption with Rust

To be honest sir, I don't have much exposure to the RUST framework but I am willing to read more about it and check out the docs as I have been doing the same. Can't wait to contribute to this project and would love to be a part of this amazing organization.

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Timeline

So, this is how I have decided to approach my project & have made a rough timeline related to the same.

Week	Goals	Description
1	Mentor-Mentee Bonding	Interaction with the community
2	Understanding	understanding the codebase
3	Architecture creation	making a rough architecture as to how things would work out for us
4	Coding Rust implementation	understanding & coding the rust implementation for protocols
5	Coding	writing a code in TypeScript from the insights given by the mentors
6	Pipe component	Creating pipe component (unidirectional transport).
7	Channel Component	Creating a channel (bidirectional transport).
8	Stream Component	Creating a stream (transport with persistent storage)
9	Improvisation	improving the core logic by discussing with the mentor
10	Documentation	further improvisation by tweaking the code style, modularity & documentation
12	Testing	code testing so that it's production-ready

Time commitments:

I am currently having my End-Sem exams, which will get over by 7th Jan, after that by 23rd Jan our next session would begin in the offline mode, rest I don't have any other commitments during the externship period. So I would be adequately able to commit to the project.

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My Understanding

After implementing the Alice & Bob example, this time using End-to-End Encryption through Kafka,

I realized how this Routing helped us to tackle 4 major problems namely Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability, and Authentication while messaging between data points/centers across a secured channel. The choice of languages like Rust not only makes this process look really understandable to the end-user but also ensures a faster process.

In the above example, we created a mutually authenticated, end-to-end encrypted channel running through Kafka by combining the security of end-to-end encryption with delivery guarantees of Kafka.

I even studied about the Ockam Messaging Architecture & how it helps to send messages between Ockam Workers and allows workers to forward messages using onward routes and trace return routes.
important finding (though, I am still not clear about it ..!!): The longer the pipeline of workers and transports between sender and receiver, the harder it becomes to reason about delivery.

Routing and messaging protocols make transport between nodes and workers possible. Protocols are a set of rules to follow. An implementation in Rust exists. The task is to help expand to languages like TypeScript. Looking forward to learning new things and working under the Ockam team's guidance under externship.