jvmartin/cs300-protocol

A protocol for our Raspberry Pi distributed messaging network.

cs300-protocol's Issues

Bart's Critique of Protocol

Critique of Protocol Document (as Checklist)

• Needs description of how the clients get the encryption key and the client table
• We need to assume that all clients already have the encryption key
  • This assumption needs to be added to the document
• Should have version byte (or bytes) in each message
• Each message should contain sender's user name and receiver's name
• Needs some description of how RC4 fits in
  • including set up cycle
  • Recall:
    • you have to run the machine many times to get the internal state of the
      machine sufficiently chaotic (20,000X)
      • Decide how many times to run the machine
      • Decide on an initial value (random)
      • include that setup must be run ( or initialization ) before each message
• Before wednesday, review and repair protocol