work on adding peers, improving docs, and minor bug fixes

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 __pycache__/
 data/config.ini
 data/*.db
+data-old/*
 dev-enabled

communicator.py

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 '''
-    Onionr - P2P Microblogging Platform & Social network. Run with 'help' for usage.
+Onionr - P2P Microblogging Platform & Social network. 
+    
+This file contains both the OnionrCommunicate class for communcating with peers
+and code to operate as a daemon, getting commands from the command queue database (see core.Core.daemonQueue)
+'''
+'''
     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
@@ -14,24 +19,30 @@
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 '''
-import sqlite3, requests, hmac, hashlib, time
+import sqlite3, requests, hmac, hashlib, time, sys
 import core
 class OnionrCommunicate:
     def __init__(self):
+        ''' OnionrCommunicate
+
+        This class handles communication with nodes in the Onionr network.
+        '''
         self._core = core.Core()
-        while True:
-            print('Onionr daemon running')
-            time.sleep(2)
         return
     def getRemotePeerKey(self, peerID):
         '''This function contacts a peer and gets their main PGP key.
-        This is safe because Tor or I2P is used, but it does not insure that the person is who they say they are
+        
+        This is safe because Tor or I2P is used, but it does not ensure that the person is who they say they are
         '''
         url = 'http://' + peerID + '/public/?action=getPGP'
         r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
         response = r.text
         return response
-
+shouldRun = False
-
+try:
-
+    if sys.argv[1] == 'run':
-OnionrCommunicate()
+        shouldRun = True
+except IndexError:
+    pass
+if shouldRun:
+    OnionrCommunicate()

core.py

@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ class Core:
         # This function simply adds a peer to the DB
         conn = sqlite3.connect(self.peerDB)
         c = conn.cursor()
-        t = (peerID, name)
+        t = (peerID, name, 'unknown')
-        c.execute('Insert into users (id, name) values(?, ?);', t)
+        c.execute('Insert into users (id, name, dateSeen) values(?, ?, ?);', t)
         conn.commit()
         conn.close()
         return True

docs/onionr-draft.md

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Onionr Protocol Spec
+
+A social network/microblogging platform for Tor & I2P
+
+Draft Dec 25 2017
+
+notes:
+Use Blowfish in addition with AES?
+
+# Overview
+
+Onionr is an encrypted microblogging & mailing system designed in the spirit of Twitter.
+There are no central servers and all traffic is peer to peer by default (routed via Tor or I2P).
+User IDs are simply Tor onion service/I2P host id + PGP fingerprint.
+Clients consolidate feeds from peers into 1 “timeline” using RSS format.
+Private messages are only accessible by the intended peer based on the PGP id.
+Onionr is not intended to be a replacement for Ricochet or OnionShare.
+All traffic is over onion/I2P because if only some was, then that would make that traffic inherently suspicious.
+## Goals:
+    • Selective sharing of information with friends & public
+    • Secure & semi-anonymous direct messaging
+    • Forward secrecy
+    • Defense in depth
+    • Data should be secure for years to come, quantum safe (though not necessarily every “layer”)
+    • Decentralization
+    * Avoid browser-based exploits that plague similar software
+    * Avoid timing attacks & unexpected metadata leaks
+## Assumptions:
+    • Tor & I2P’s transport protocols & AES-256 are not broken, sha3-512 2nd preimage attacks will remain infeasible indefinitely
+    • All traffic is logged indefinitely by powerful adversaries
+## Protocol
+Clients MUST use HTTP(s) to communicate with one another to maintain compatibility cross platform. HTTPS is recommended, but HTTP is acceptable because Tor & I2P provide transport layer security.
+## Connections
+    When a node first comes online, it attempts to bootstrap using a default list provided by a client.
+    When two peers connect, they exchange PGP public keys and then generate a shared AES-SHA3-512 HMAC token. These keys are stored in a peer database until expiry.
+    HMAC tokens are regenerated either every X many communications with a peer or every X minutes. Every 10 communications or every 24 hours is a recommended default.
+    All valid requests with HMAC should be recorded until used HMAC's expiry to prevent replay attacks.
+    Peer Types
+        * Friends:
+            * Encrypted ‘friends only’ posts to one another
+            * Usually less strict rate & storage limits
+            * OPTIONALLY sign one another’s keys. Users may not want to do this in order to avoid exposing their entire friends list.
+        • Strangers:
+            * Used for storage of encrypted or public information
+            * Can only read public posts
+            * Usually stricter rate & storage limits
+## Data Storage/Delivery
+
+    Posts (public or friends only) are stored across the network.
+    Private messages SHOULD be delivered directly if both peers are online, otherwise stored in the network.
+    Data SHOULD be stored in an entirely encrypted state when a client is offline, including metadata. Data SHOULD be stored in a minimal size with garbage data to ensure some level of plausible deniablity.
+    Data SHOULD be stored as long as the node’s user prefers and only erased once disk quota is reached due to new data.
+    Posts
+    Posts can contain text and images. All posts MUST be time stamped.
+    Images SHOULD not be displayed by non-friends by default, to prevent unwanted viewing of offensive material & to reduce attack surface.
+    All received posts must be verified to be stored and/or displayed to the user.
+     Posts have two settings:
+        • Friends only:
+            ◦ Posts MUST be encrypted to all trusted peers via AES256-HMAC-SHA256 and PGP signed (signed before encryption) and time stamped to prevent replaying. A temporary RSA key for use in every post (or message) is exchanged every X many configured post (or message), for use in addition with PGP and the HMAC.
+        • Public:
+            ◦ Posts MUST be PGP signed, and MUST NOT use any encryption.
+## Private Messages
+
+    Private messages are messages that can have attached images. They MUST be encrypted via AES256-HMAC-SHA256 and PGP signed (signed before encryption) and time stamped to prevent replaying. A temporary RSA key for use in every message is exchanged every X many configured messages (or posts), for use in addition with PGP and the HMAC.
+    When both peers are online messages SHOULD be dispatched directly between peers.
+    All messages must be verified prior to being displayed.
+    
+    CLients SHOULD allow configurable message padding.
+## Spam mitigation
+
+To send or receive data, a node can optionally request that the other node generate a hash that when in hexadecimal representation contains a random string at a random location in the string. Clients will configure what difficulty to request, and what difficulty is acceptable for themselves to perform. Difficulty should correlate with recent network & disk usage and data size. Friends can be configured to have less strict (to non existent) limits, separately from strangers. (proof of work).
+Rate limits can be strict, as Onionr is not intended to be an instant messaging application.

onionr.py

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 '''
-    Onionr - P2P Microblogging Platform & Social network. Run with 'help' for usage.
+    Onionr - P2P Microblogging Platform & Social network. 
+
+    Onionr is the name for both the protocol and the original/reference software.
+
+    Run with 'help' for usage.
+'''
+'''
     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
@@ -21,6 +27,10 @@ from colors import Colors
 
 class Onionr:
     def __init__(self):
+        '''Main Onionr class. This is for the CLI program, and does not handle much of the logic.
+        In general, external programs and plugins should not use this class.
+
+        '''
         if os.path.exists('dev-enabled'):
             print('DEVELOPMENT MODE ENABLED (THIS IS LESS SECURE!)')
             self._developmentMode = True
@@ -35,8 +45,11 @@ class Onionr:
         # Get configuration and Handle commands
         
         self.debug = False # Whole application debugging
-
+        try:
             os.chdir(sys.path[0])
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+
         if os.path.exists('data-encrypted.dat'):
             while True:
                 print('Enter password to decrypt:')
@@ -94,7 +107,7 @@ class Onionr:
         return
     def daemon(self):
         if not os.environ.get("WERKZEUG_RUN_MAIN") == "true":
-            subprocess.Popen(["./communicator.py"])
+            subprocess.Popen(["./communicator.py", "run"])
             print('Started communicator')
         api.API(self.config, self.debug)
         return

tests.py

@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ class OnionrTests(unittest.TestCase):
         print('Running peer db insertion test')
         import core
         myCore = core.Core()
+        if not os.path.exists('data/peers.db'):
             myCore.createPeerDB()
         if myCore.addPeer('test'):
-            self.asserTrue(True)
+            self.assertTrue(True)
         else:
             self.assertTrue(False)
     def testData_b_Encrypt(self):