NEVMES

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gpg and i2p made simple for end-to-end encrypted, secure comms

About

• send messages over the invisible internet
• vanity base32 addresses (advanced)
• automated mandatory gpg key encryption
• xmr payment integration

Dev

• stack - rust (egui, rocket), lmdb, i2p-zero, monero(rpc, daemon), gpg
• install dependencies
  • ubuntu example: sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
  • sudo apt install -y libssl-dev build-essential libgpgme-dev
• git clone https://github/com/creating2morrow/nevmes
• cd nevmes && ./scripts/build_all_and_run.sh "-- -h"
• gui built with rust egui

Installation Mananger

• additional required software can be downloaded from the gui home or Binaries links below
• hashes are in core lib.rs
• download and run i2p
  • /i2p/i2prouter start
  • /i2p/i2prouter install (optional: setup to run on boot similar to tor daemon)
• download i2p-zero, put the path in the connection manager or cli --i2p-zero-dir flag
• download monero, update connection manager or cli
  • --monero-blockchain-dir, where to put lmdb for monero (e.g. path/to/ssd)
  • --monero-location, path to monero download

Contributing and Releasing

| branch |                 |tag and release|
  dev     -----------------|-------------------------------------------->
  v0.1.0  -----------tag v0.1.0 (delete branch)
  v0.2.0                   |-------------------------------------------->
  main    -------------------------------------------------------------->

• code on dev branch
• run ./scripts/fmtall.sh before committing
• pull request to dev branch
• todo => TODO(name): detailed work
• docs on all pub fn and pub struct
• merge dev to vX.X.X
• merge vX.X.X to main
• tag release v.X.X.X every friday (if stable changes)
• release binaries from the cargo-build-release workflow with notes
• create next v.X.X+1.X branch and delete old release branch
• release bug fixes as appropriate to v.X.X.X+1 branch when ready

Workflows

name	branch	purpose
cargo-build	main,dev	ensure code compilation and build success
cargo-audit	main,dev	run security audit against RustSec database
cargo-build-release	v0.*	publish production ready binaries

API

• remote/programmatic access
• secured by wallet signing
• jwt and jwp
• see curl.md

Binaries

• nevmes-auth - internal auth server
• nevmes-contact - internal add contacts server
• nevmes-gui - primary user interface
• nevmes-message - internal message tx/read etc. server
• nevmes - external primary server for contact share, payment, message rx etc.
• monerod - (not included) monero-wallet-rpc needs this
  • can be overriden with remote node
  • use the --remote-node flag
• monero-wallet-rpc - (not included) interface for xmr wallet ops
• i2p-zero - (not included) tunnel creation
• i2p - http proxy (not included, *i2p-zero http proxy not working)

most of the complex logic stays in nevmes-core, exported from lib.rs

Manual

the manual