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10 years ago
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twister group chat draft
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group chat is a private and encrypted timeline shared among some users
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which define a specific topic (or description).
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it is tempting to use a new torrent where members would subscribe in
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order to post their chat messages. however this idea does work as it is
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impossible (very difficult?) to implement a distributed torrent with
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multiple writers. (a clash occurs when two writers try to send the
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same piece number)
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therefore, twister's group chat is a special case of direct messages
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using a private key pair (outside of the blockchain). non-members do not
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know about group chat creation as public key is never published.
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members are invited to group using a special (bencoded) group_invite DM:
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group_invite {
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desc: "free text description",
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key: "secret of the private key",
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}
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after sending the group_invite DM to a given user, another DM is sent
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to the group itself to notify all existing members about the new
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member list. this is another special DM:
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group_members {
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[xxx,yyy,...]
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}
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it is true that, since every member knows both private/public keys of
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the group, symmetric-key could have been used for group chat's messages.
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however we reuse the same twister infrastructure of original DMs.
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any group chats, invites and messages are indistinguible from normal
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DMs to non-members.
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because all members have access to private key, there is no concept of
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administrator. any member may invite new members and change group's
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description. it is not possible to exclude a member, so frontends may
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offer an option to clone/create a new group excluding whoever they
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want.
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---
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new RPCs for group chat:
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- creategroup <description>
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returns groupalias (which is added to wallet).
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group aliases are prepended with "*" so they are not valid usernames
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and may not be propagated accidentaly to the network.
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group aliases are only valid locally, each twisterd instance will
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create its own alias upon receiving an invitation.
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- listgroups
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[ groupalias1, groupalias2, ... ]
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- getgroupinfo
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{alias:xxx,description:xxx,members:[xxx,yyy,...]}
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- newgroupinvite <username> <k> <groupalias> [<newmember1>,<newmember2>,...]
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DM(group_invite) => newmember
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DM(group_members) => groupalias
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- newgroupdescription <username> <k> <groupalias> <description>
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DM(group_invite) => groupalias
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- leavegroup <username> <groupalias>
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not yet implemented
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note: use getdirectmsgs/newdirectmsgto to obtain/post new messages
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to group chats.
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