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Added app: ipfs-chat #391

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@SomajitDey SomajitDey commented Aug 21, 2021

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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

ipfs-chat achieves all these and is run from a single Bash script !

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  • Encrypted messaging
  • Encrypted file and directory sharing

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@andrew andrew merged commit 974ce3b into ipfs:master Aug 23, 2021
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