securechat

Mini-project for my Y12 Software Engingeering Major Work

About

This is meant to be an end-to-end encrypted messaging app based off of Signal's X3DH Key Agreement Protocol. https://signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/

Pre-requisites

1. Install the latest version of Rust here https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/ Follow any additional steps you find there in fully setting up Rust Some useful information: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch01-01-installation.html https://users.rust-lang.org/t/install-rust-error/126530
2. Install postgres 18 for your platform https://www.postgresql.org/download/
3. Install the sqlx-cli cargo install sqlx-cli

Setup-guide

1. Clone the repository to your favourite location
2. Ensure that your current working directory is inside the root of one of the workspaces (client/server)
3. For building server:
   1. move your current directory into infra and ensure that you have the DATABASE_URL environment variable properly set in a .env at the root of the infra crate
   2. Ensure that the database is running
   3. run sqlx migrate run in the terminal
   4. move your current directory back to the root of server
   5. run cargo run --release in the terminal
4. build and run program (cargo run --release) for each workspace
5. Enjoy (if it works)

important note

I never finished this project so it doesn't work