isabella232 / student_18_decenar

This repository contains the implementation of DecenArch, a decentralized system for privacy-conscious Internet archiving against censorship. This project is realized in the context of a Master Thesis at the DEDIS laboratory at EPFL.

DecenArch is highly experimental and still a prototype and should not be considered secure or reliable for real-world purposes.

Documentation

The Master Thesis report provides the documentation for the project.
To run and use a conode, have a look at Cothority Node with examples of protocols, services and apps.

Installation

• Install and set up a Go working environment according to https://golang.org/doc/install. DecenArch has been developed and tested with Go version 1.10.3.
• Get the last version of DecenArch by running: go get -u https://github.com/dedis/student_18_decenar
• Move in the project directory: cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/dedis/student_18_decenar
• Recursively get all the dependencies: go get -d ./...

Example

To test the archive installation, you can do the following:

• cd student_18_decenar/ (go to the repository folder)
• go install ./conode (install the conode module)
• go install ./decenarch (install the decenarch module)
• create a cothority with the number of nodes you want (see the cothority repository)
• conode -c /path/to/conode/private.toml server for each conode (run the local conode)
• decenarch k /path/to/general/public.toml (start the skipchain routine)
• decenarch s -u "https://url.of.your.choice" /path/to/general/public.toml (save a web page)
• decenarch r -u "https://url.of.your.choice" /path/to/general/public.toml (retrieve the saved web page
• The last line in the terminal indicates where the webpage was stored on your filesystem

Credits

The virst version of DecenArch, quite different from this one, was developed by Nicolas Plancherel and is available here: https://github.com/dedis/student_17_decenar.

License

All repositories for the cothority are double-licensed under a GNU/AGPL 3.0 and a commercial license. If you want to have more information, contact us at [email protected].