thinktainer / yoti-exercise

Yoti coding exercise

Client / Server application for encrypting values and storing them with ids.

Prerequesites

golang and set up $GOPATH

Compiling

run make

Running

run ./run.sh

Interactive commands

the commands are:

• store <ID> yourstringvalue
• retreive <ID> <ABOVE_RESULT>

please be aware that the lexing algorithm is brutally primitive, and won't accept spaces in the string to encrypt it tokenises on space characters, so the spaces in the input will have to match this format exactly

Remarks

This was a very fun exercise for me, and I have been able to discover lots of areas of computer science which had been living behind a veil of sort of knowing about them, keeping them unexplored. Especially reading about encryption algorithms has been enjoyable and challenging.

I appreciate there are plenty of areas I have glossed over in my implementation, but I think it will serve as a very good starting point for further discussion. It has been a real pleasure working with the protobuf / grpc tool chain, and I am very impressed by the maturity of the project, and flexibility it enables for polyglot service architectures.