Overview and Logs for the tini2p Dev Meeting Held on 2019-09-19
Current project status, Roadmap, Meta issues, and miscellaneous
dev diaries
i2p
crypto
el00ruobuob / oneiric
Logs
<tini2p_gitlab> time of the meet <tini2p_gitlab> 0: Greetings <tini2p_gitlab> h <tini2p_gitlab> 1: What's been done <tini2p_gitlab> A lot <tini2p_gitlab> Finished tunnels impl, and merged into master <tini2p_gitlab> (with helpful review from @DavidBurkett) <tini2p_gitlab> I'm still used to being the only person working on the project, so have to habituate myself to a workflow that includes other people <tini2p_gitlab> started work on the router context (what ties all the pieces together) <DavidBurkett> Don't change anything because of me. I'm slow and unreliable <DavidBurkett> I'll catch up eventually, just keep doing what you're doing :) <tini2p_gitlab> in the process, came across some impl bugs in NTCP2 (fixed), updated NTCP2 to include a testnet v. mainnet netID, and started working on ECIES updates <tini2p_gitlab> no worries, I just meant that you're the first other than me to review my code :) <DavidBurkett> Haha, got it <tini2p_gitlab> for the ECIES updates: there has been a lot of them <tini2p_gitlab> zzz pushed updates to move us to something much closer to standard Noise, and I love the changes <tini2p_gitlab> it's a bit of work to change my impl, but all the changes are for the better <tini2p_gitlab> the code is looking much cleaner now <tini2p_gitlab> the cryptographic guarantees are stronger and more clear as well, which is the bigger win imo <DavidBurkett>🚀 Do you have a link to zzz's updates? <tini2p_gitlab> you can follow my work in my context branch: https://gitlab.com/tini2p/tini2p/tree/context <DavidBurkett> Ah perfect <tini2p_gitlab> yeah, zzz's updates are pushed to the main 144 proposal: https://geti2p.net/spec/proposals/144-ecies-x25519-aead-ratchet <tini2p_gitlab> we're still working out some kinks in the handshake, and will need to update the ratchet KDFs afterwards <tini2p_gitlab> we are getting **much** closer to finalizing the spec though, which is awesome <tini2p_gitlab> so, my impl may deviate from the spec a bit until we get everything figured out <tini2p_gitlab> we're trying to get as close to standard Noise as possible, while maintaining the necessary properties for ECIES-X25519 stated goals <DavidBurkett> That's great news <tini2p_gitlab> definitely <tini2p_gitlab>😸 <tini2p_gitlab> the downside to all that is I've spent a good amount of time refactoring, so don't have code that is ready for a release candidate <tini2p_gitlab> long-term it's for the best, in the short-term it's a slog to get to alpha release <tini2p_gitlab> which leads to the next item <tini2p_gitlab> 2: What's next <tini2p_gitlab> continue the refactors for ECIES-X25519 <tini2p_gitlab> get something working for end-to-end crypto sessions, and work with zzz on fixing spec bugs (if/when they come up) <tini2p_gitlab> finish the context impl <tini2p_gitlab> create the docker testnet for local integration testing <tini2p_gitlab> idk how long the docker testnet will take, but I'm hoping something minimal will be fairly easy to setup <tini2p_gitlab> if it takes more than a day or two, I'll push an alpha release candidate without the testnet <tini2p_gitlab> the biggest hurdle I see for the testnet is populating the NetDB of the routers with the RouterInfos of the other routers in the testnet <tini2p_gitlab> I don't have reseed impled, so I'll have to do something manual <zlatinb> you may find this useful: http://zzz.i2p/topics/2756-testnet-with-lxc-instructions <tini2p_gitlab> really hoping this is the last time I'll have to say this: pushing the alpha release date back another two weeks <tini2p_gitlab> awesome! thank you @zlatinb :) <zlatinb> also talk to "obscuratus" on Irc2P, he has a mixed i2pd/java i2p testnet, also with lxc <tini2p_gitlab> right on, I'm hoping to do it with docker for eventual windows support <tini2p_gitlab> right now, tini2p only builds on linux. will be working on cross-platform builds post-alpha <tini2p_gitlab> there's probably a lot of crossover in approach to lxc, so I appreciate the resources. will definitely be reaching out to obscuratus <DavidBurkett> Builds on mac also <DavidBurkett> But of course, that's based on linux <DavidBurkett> I nearly had it building on windows, but I got frustrated and quit :) <tini2p_gitlab> haha wow, thanks for build testing <tini2p_gitlab> yeah, I imagine the windows experience is pretty hellish atm <DavidBurkett> np, wasn't intentional. I'm the 0.1% of devs who prefers windows <DavidBurkett> So I tried there first <DavidBurkett> It wasn't quite as bad as you might think, but 1 of the dependencies was pissing me off lol <tini2p_gitlab> noise-c? <DavidBurkett> Yes, that's the one <tini2p_gitlab> yup <tini2p_gitlab> that's a bear <tini2p_gitlab> I'll be moving all the noise stuff into the project proper, and remove the noise-c lib <tini2p_gitlab> it's a great reference, but making it cross-platform is such a pain <DavidBurkett> Excellent. Let me know when you want me to try building again <tini2p_gitlab> will do, I appreciate the offer <DavidBurkett>👍 <tini2p_gitlab> long-term I hope to contribute a CMake build system to noise-c <tini2p_gitlab> atm that's low priority though <tini2p_gitlab> that will be extremely time-consuming, but I want to give something back to the project <tini2p_gitlab> rweather did a lot to help me understand Noise :) <tini2p_gitlab> so, that's more-or-less what I'll be working on: router context, ECIES updates, some NetDB stuff, docker testnet <tini2p_gitlab> 3: Questions/comments <tini2p_gitlab> alright, so that's the meeting <tini2p_gitlab> will do my best to get a release candidate out by next Thursday, and alpha release the following week <DavidBurkett> Looking forward to it <tini2p_gitlab>👍 <tini2p_gitlab> 4: Next meeting <tini2p_gitlab> 2019-10-03 18:00 UTC <tini2p_gitlab> holy shit, we're already almost in October <tini2p_gitlab> thanks all for attending <tini2p_gitlab> @tini2p_gitlab twirls the gavel