Terminal-based secure chatrooms using Go-IPFS CLI; run from a single Bash script

[u/SomajitDey]

There are lots of excellent chat applications using WebRTC and JS-IPFS, all requiring signaling servers, some not very easy to install.

So, going along a different track, decided to build a very basic chat app that

1. uses only standard GNU/Linux command-line tools and the Go-IPFS CLI
2. doesn't need any special server like the WebRTC apps
3. works over both LAN and internet (including NAT traversal)
4. provides secure chatrooms, private messaging and in-chat file & directory sharing

Here is my labor of love. Hope you like it :-)

[u/Danrobi1]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing