ByteChat

ByteChat is an encrypted messaging web application developed with Socket.IO and Laravel
The application provides an instant messaging and social-networking service for users
ByteChat ensures communication is secure such that all messages are encrypted with AES where
several crypto libraries aes-lib-js & SafeExchange were written for this project
Addtionally, the application was supported by recent research work

Features

User Sign-in

Account Registration

Change Settings

Change Display Picture

Add Friends

First search for your friend then add them

New friend requests will show up in your Notifications

You can choose to accept or decline a friend request

Chatting

You can chat with any of your online friends
Users can be chatting with multiple friends simultaneously

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Laravel 4.1
• NodeJS
• SafeExchange
• aes-lib-js
• MySQL 5.6+
• Apache

Installation

• Clone the byte-chat repository

git clone https://github.com/kyleruss/byte-chat.git

• Start your MySQL server and reate the ByteChat database

sudo service mysql start
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE MySQL;
exit

• Migrate the tables

php artisan migrate

• Start your apache and the node server in nodeserver directory

sudo service apache2 start
node nServer

• Connect to the server at http://localhost/ByteChat/public You can change the connection parameters in public/javascript/main.js
  The node listening port can be changed in nodeserver/nServer.js

License

ByteChat is available under the MIT License
See LICENSE for more details