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telehash tools library in c

This is a full implementation of telehash in portable c for embedded systems, designed to be source that can be copied into other projects.

Building

Just run make to build a libtelehash.a and some utility apps into bin/*. Use make test to run a full test suite, and make static to generate a current standalone telehash.c and telehash.h.

Use npm install to automatically install optional crypto dependencies (libsodium and libtomcrypt).

Library Interface

The codebase is a set of components that can be used to create/integrate telehash services, here's a rough layout, see src/ and include/ for details.

  • e3x_*: all of the crypto handling
  • mesh_* and link_*: higher level easy interfaces for apps
  • ext_*: various useful extensions to a mesh to support built-in channels
  • pipe_* and net_*: transport and networking handling
  • util_* and libs: portable utilities and bundled libs

There's many examples of usage in the bundled tests.

Memory Notes

Most of the codebase uses lob_t as the primary data type since it handles JSON and binary for all packets.

The following methods return generated lobs (you must free):

  • e3x_channel_receiving
  • e3x_channel_sending
  • e3x_channel_oob
  • e3x_channel_packet
  • e3x_self_decrypt
  • e3x_exchange_message
  • e3x_exchange_handshake
  • e3x_exchange_receive
  • link_handshakes
  • link_sync
  • link_resync
  • mesh_on_open (callback must return or free the given lob)

And these methods consume lobs (will be free'd):

  • e3x_channel_receive
  • e3x_channel_send
  • link_handshake
  • link_receive
  • link_receive_handshake
  • link_send
  • link_flush
  • link_direct
  • mesh_handshake
  • mesh_handshakes
  • mesh_receive
  • mesh_receive_handshake