Installation

Prerequisites

You must have python 3.4 installed on your system. On linux this is available on most distros as python3. You can check by typing python3 –version into your linux bash

You will need to have pip installed aswell in order to download the pycrypto library needed for some of the algorithms

Installation

For the rest of the app:

1. Download the latest release from https://github.com/bensoer/pychat/releases
2. Execute sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies

Quickstart

Start the program by calling

python3 pychat.py -h localhost -p 7000 -lp 8000 -u bert -a CaesarCipher

This will start PyChat on localhost calling another user on port 7000 and listening for responses on 8000. The converstion will be encrypted with a CaesarCipher. Your username for the other user will appear in this example as bert. Note that the CaesarCipher has additional optional parameters. Since we did not use them, default CaesarCipher setings were used. For details on these optional parameters to this example, see the CaesarCipher section in the Available Encryption/Decryption Algorithms section of the readme.

See the Parameters section for all common valid parameters