www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ceof.mdwn

## Introduction

ceof is the implementation and documentation
of ***EOF*** (Eris Onion Forwarding),
the secure, peer-to-peer (p2p), decentralised anonymous chat network.

You can read the 
[bachelor thesis](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=ceof;a=blob;f=doc/thesis.pdf),
which describes the motivation and goals or you
can view [the poster that was used on the presentation](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=ceof;a=blob;f=doc/appendix/poster.pdf).

## Dependencies

 * python3
 * python-gnupg (the package python3-gnupg exists for Debian)
 * virtualenv (optional, if isolating the environment for ceof)

## Installation

 * Clone the git repo

    git clone git://git.schottelius.org/ceof

### When the distro does not ship a Package for python3-gnupg

  * Create an isolated python environment

    virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 python-env

  * Activate the python environment and install gnupg

    . ./python-env/bin/activate
    pip install python-gnupg

### Create public/private key pair

This may take some time, try to keep your computer busy so you can gather 
more entropy.

    cd ceof
    ./src/bin/ceof crypto -g --name "Nico@Tee" --email-address nico-ceof@tee.schottelius.org

## Support

There are two IRC (!) channels, in which development takes places:

 * [!eof](irc://IRCNet/!eof) - German
 * [#cstar](irc://irc.freenode.org/#cstar) - Multi language (German/English)

You can subscribe to the
[!eof mailinglist](http://l.schottelius.org/mailman/listinfo/eof).
You can also [[contact me directly|about]].

[[!tag ceof crypot chat net unix]]