IPDM

The goal is to create a decentralized whatsapp.

Distinguished properties we'd want to support:

• Private: authenticated and end-to-end encrypted
• Asynchronous: conversations can be created and progress without both parties being online
• Deniable: a leaked transcript doesn't provide proof of who authored the messages
• Forward and future secure: leaked credentials can't reveal an entire conversation
• --All of the above for group chats-- (stretch goal)

The initial version is a port of an existing chat application that is synchronous, end-to-end encrypted, and ephemeral (no static keys). This initial experience, while admittedly limitted, offers a working end-to-end prototype with interfaces and affordances that can be iterated upon.

Roadmap

• Finish port of 5EDM
• Attachments
• Asynchronicity
• Authentication
• Production Deploy
• Full p2p
• Groups?

Monorepo

The monorepo is using Turborepo and pnpm workspaces to link packages together.

Packages:

• ./apps/ipdm: UI, app frontend built with Vite, Preact, Tailwind CSS
• ./packages/client: Chat client package
• ./packages/relay: Libp2p dev relay server

Setup

pnpm install
pnpm build

Dev

Next, run app in development mode:

pnpm dev

The app should be up and running at http://localhost:5173.