Basic implementation detail

[gdude2002]

This project will be comprised of two main parts.

• Control - The main control and management node
  • In the standard server-client design methodology, this is the server.
• Packages - Distributed servers in charge of the actual management of repos and packages
  • And if we have a server and a client, this one is the client.

I was thinking about using RSA encryption and public key exchanges to do security, but the reality is that we'd need pretty large keys to facilitate this, and they would take a long time to generate with a pure-python implementation. For that reason, I've decided to go with SSL sockets for communication between the control and packages nodes.

So, the first thing to do is get a basic server and client working, get an events system working and then look into authentication. Here are the steps I'm hoping to take.

• Control node
  • SSL certificate and key generation
  • SSL servers
    • One SSL server for packages nodes
    • One SSL server for control/API clients
      • This isn't the HTTP API server
    • I'll work out a protocol in a separate ticket
  • Distributed events system
    • While each node will be able to handle its own events, they'll also be sent to the control node and passed to the other packages nodes and API clients
• Packages nodes
  • SSL client
  • Events system
    • Local events
    • Network events