E2EE messaging May 23, 2018:
Started the basic shell for playing with E2EE messaging. This is based on Django which is heavily supported, making it extemely likely you will find answers to your questions. At this stage, it would be interesting to set the landing page to one room. In this single room, you can enter a username and an encryption key. Once this is entered, messages which match your encryption key will be decrypted in the chat window. Others will remain encrypted. Messages you send will be encrypted using the key you provided. This is the plan at this stage.
Instruction for launching the server are given for an Ubuntu installation. Fairly easy to install ubuntu in a virtualbox.
This is a Django App based on the multichat application found here: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels-examples
Installation You will need Python 3.6 You will need Pip3 You will need paver You will need python-dev You will need Redis
If you're using Ubuntu:
Install python3.6 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3.6
Install Pip3 sudo apt-get install python3-pip
Install paver sudo apt-get install python-paver
Install python-dev sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev
(The original creator used a docker container. We may do this again, but the walk-through is very complete.) Install Redis https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-redis-on-ubuntu-16-04
You can use the paver script for the rest of the process. Install Virtual Environment: paver Install
Start bash terminal in virtual environment: paver bash
To exit bash terminal: exit
Start the server: paver run