RISHABH CHAUHAN | WebAssembly Based TypeScript Wrapper For Ockam Protocols In Rust

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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 Web Assembly since this could be the new way of building web applications as it allows the native code to run on web browsers which makes the web app blazing fast and compact. Web Assembly is basically enabling applications to use languages like C++, Rust, Python COBOL, Go to be used in web browsers. As we know Ockam has already built core protocols in rust and elixir. Instead of writing the core cryptographic protocols in different languages, we can use Web Assembly to be used to make a compilation target that would be compiled using other languages and we can deliver it to the web browser.

Rust is already popular among web assembly and it would be perfect for this project. So the main aim of this project would be to compile the Rust version of protocols made by Ockum to be compiled to WebAssembly and then we would add typescript wrappers to make the code easy and idiomatic for Typescript and Javascript devs as suggested by Mrinal.

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.