[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-11 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Dear devs, My name is Huy, and I am a computer science student at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. GSoC is a great opportunity for me to contribute to Tor. I have been watching the development of Tor Messenger since its release. As my major is cryptography, I find the idea “im

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-12 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi Marcela,  Thanks for your quickly reply.  > It's reasonable to assume that the client may one day talk to other CONIKS > servers and   > clients. So clearly specifying the data format that the Tor Messenger client > (and also  > the server) uses is an important part of the project. Ultimatel

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-15 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Dear Marcela, Arlo  > You’re very welcome, we look forward to your application!  I have submitted my draft proposal via GSoC website. I am looking forward to your feedback.   Thank you so much!   best,  Vu Quoc Huy  ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@li

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-22 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi, I have included below my draft proposal and would like to hear your advise about it.  — My proposal for this project is presented as follow: firstly, I describe an overview implementation of server, followed by a list of important user interface/overall architectural client components,

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2016-03-23 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi Arlo, > It may be prudent to consider a memory-managed language (I'll suggest golang > here as popular choice) for the server component. It is good to know that I can use golang to develop the server component. I am going to rewrite this part. > Wherever possible, we'd like to avoid modals a

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-23 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi Arlo, > It may be prudent to consider a memory-managed language (I'll suggest golang > here as popular choice) for the server component. It is good to know that I can use golang to develop the server component. I am going to rewrite this part. > Wherever possible, we'd like to avoid modals a

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS implementation for Tor Messenger

2016-03-24 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi Arlo, > > The point I was failing to make is that since modals stop the > world, we should use them sparingly. But maybe this is a case > where it's warranted. Thanks for good lesson in UX :). Marcela’s and your comments have helped me very much.  Best,  Vu Huy __

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - gsoc.hello()

2016-04-23 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone! I'm Huy, a senior year undergraduate from HUST-Vietnam, who is starting to work with CONIKS for Tor Messenger as a part of Google Summer of Code. This project aims at implementing a CONIKS server for key verification and a CONIKS client which integrates with the Tor Messenger clien

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - 1st status report

2016-06-02 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone, This is the first status report on the CONIKS for Tor Messenger project. This is what I have done so far: * Discussing with Arlo and Marcela about the account verification module. The proposal is described below. * Implementing the Merkle prefix tree module. The source code is unde

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - 2nd status report

2016-06-17 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone, This is my second status report on the CONIKS for Tor Messenger project. During the last two weeks I’ve been working on several things: 1. Continue implementing the Merkle prefix tree module and fix issues based on comments from Marcela, Arlo and Ismail. These are still some works n

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - 2nd status report

2016-06-18 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
On June 18, 2016 at 01:08:34, Marcela S. Melara (mel...@cs.princeton.edu) wrote: > Another related issue that arises if you wait to push all of your new code at > once is that > your PRs become very large and more complex to review. So in addition to > publishing your > code early and often, I wo

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - status report #3

2016-07-01 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone, This is my third status report on the CONIKS for Tor Messenger project. These are things that I have been doing in the last two weeks: 1. Continue implementing the Merkle prefix tree module. Currently, the STR source code are under review. This module takes a lot of time since it is

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - status report #3

2016-07-03 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
l lookup for its own value after a timeout. This way, it could obtain its temporary binding. It will be updated in my next status report. Best, Huy On July 1, 2016 at 23:40:40, Huy Vu Quoc (huyvq.c...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is my third status report on the CONIKS

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - status report #4

2016-07-15 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi guys, These are things that I have been doing in the last two weeks: 1. Continue implementing the libmerkletree library. The next module of the lib is a storage backend. The implementation is at [1]. Below is a brief description of my implementation: - In each update, both tree version and STR

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - status report #5

2016-07-29 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone, These are things that I have been doing in the last two weeks: - I and my mentors have had a discussions for next steps for the project. We decided to reorganize our project’s repo [1]. All repos has been merged into one [1]. This helps us maintain and keep tracking the development e

[tor-dev] [GSoC] CONIKS for Tor Messenger - Status report #6

2016-08-14 Thread Huy Vu Quoc
Hi everyone, This is my sixth status report for my GSOC project. There are not much for this recent weeks since we (my mentors and I) are concentrating on reviewing/refactoring code. 1- Development of the CONIKS protocol library: The pull for this issue is at https://github.com/coniks-sys/coniks