Noxious

Noxious is designed to be a secure, decentralized, and anonymous instant messaging platform.

Anonymous

All communications are conducted between tor hidden services and never leave the tor network.

Secure

In addition to the encryption offered by the tor hidden service protocol, all chat messages are RSA public-key encrypted using a 3072 bit key. All crytography is handled by the forge module. Although forge is 100% JavaScript, it does access the CSPRNG (Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator) provided by the native openssl library via a call to node's crypto.randomBytes function.

Platform

Noxious is built on the Electron Application Shell.

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Operating System Support

The current version has been tested on 32bit and 64bit version of Debian Linux, OSX 64bit

Installation Instructions

Node.js

Get Node.js here.. npm, node package manager will be included with the other Node.js binaries.

Clone and Build

Next, as a regular user, clone this repository into the folder of your choice:

git clone https://github.com/mattcollier/noxious.git
cd noxious
npm install

The 'npm install' command will download all the required dependencies.

Run Noxious

From inside the noxious folder do:

npm start

You should see the GUI appear. Within 30 seconds or so, you should see your 'Chat ID' appear next to the asterisk (*) in the upper left hand corner of the window.
You may now provide your Chat ID to another Noxious user who can add you as a contact which initiates a 'contact request' process which facilitates the exchange of public keys.

Support

Please submit an issue. We can also be reached via irc at #noxious on freenode.

Noxious Chat Bot

The Noxious Chat Bot is available for testing. The bot is console based and utilizes native openssl libraries for crypto. Successful communication between the Noxious Client and the Noxious Chat Bot demonstrates that the JavaScript forge module utilized in the Noxious client is openssl compatible.