From 646bd08c287a708d00f64245a2b3249751612d76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tripathyr Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:01:08 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9dd6667..607a729 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # Flo-Whatsapp: Introduction -This is a peer-peer Whatsapp like chat application totally encrypted in transit without needing a central server. Current web based technologies have a inbound address problem namely ordinary web users do not have a fixed IP, so it is not easy to esatblish connection to them. We propose to solve that problem by using TOR addresses for ordinary users which can provide a fixed inbound routable address on Internet for everyone including for those on dynamic IPs. Ever since Brave Browser an almost perfect clone of Google Chrome introduced TOR based browsing, it has become very easy to connect to a TOR based service. We believe it can form a stable architecture for peer to peer services. Another limitation of current web based technologies is ordinary users cannot allocate a fixed port using just their web browsers for inbound connections. So every user will need to run his own webservers on which he can receive chat messages. We could not find a way to eliminate webservers. But we have found a very simple webserver called Mongoose Webserver, where a user can invoke a fixed port based service on click of a single button. To facilitate globally unique identification of every peer, we propose to use FLO Blockchain IDs. Then user can then attach his TOR address onto his FLO id inside the FLO Blockchain. Since the blockchain data is immutable, it will provide a continous uniterruptable source of connection information based on user's FLO ID. +This is a peer-peer Whatsapp like chat application totally encrypted in transit without needing a central server. Current web based technologies have a inbound address problem namely ordinary web users do not have a fixed IP, so it is not easy to establish connection to them. We propose to solve that problem by using TOR addresses for ordinary users which can provide a fixed inbound routable address on Internet for everyone including for those on dynamic IPs. Ever since Brave Browser an almost perfect clone of Google Chrome introduced TOR based browsing, it has become very easy to connect to a TOR based service. We believe it can form a stable architecture for peer to peer services. Another limitation of current web based technologies is ordinary users cannot allocate a fixed port using just their web browsers for inbound connections. So every user will need to run his own webservers on which he can receive chat messages. We could not find a way to eliminate webservers. But we have found a very simple webserver called Mongoose Webserver, where a user can invoke a fixed port based service on click of a single button. To facilitate globally unique identification of every peer, we propose to use FLO Blockchain IDs. Then user can then attach his TOR address onto his FLO id inside the FLO Blockchain. Since the blockchain data is immutable, it will provide a continous uniterruptable source of connection information based on user's FLO ID. ## Requirements 1. Brave Browser