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SFML projects / Secure SFML (encrypted sockets)

« on: November 30, 2011, 08:30:23 pm »

I just updated the repository with a new namespace (ssf:: ) and different installation paths to prevent confusion with official SFML modules.

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SFML projects / Secure SFML (encrypted sockets)

« on: November 30, 2011, 12:14:46 pm »

Well to be honest, I kinda liked the fact of "implanting" this module into SFML.

But it is not official SFML. It will confuse people to see sf:: classes that are not in the official package.

People who will possess this module will also have installed it on their own, so I think they should be pretty aware of that...

But anyway, okay, I'll change the namespace. Still kinda new to this open-source world as a contributor .

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SFML projects / Secure SFML (encrypted sockets)

« on: November 30, 2011, 11:56:44 am »

This is cool! Is it based off SFML 1.6 or 2?

I'm sorry, I forgot the most important : it's based off SFML 2. I tried to do it on SFML 1.6, but the "sockets can be copied" architecture really screw it and wouldn't let me use selector with inherited socket types.
I edited the main post .

Also, i think something like ssf::Socket would be more fit than "raping" sf::

Well to be honest, I kinda liked the fact of "implanting" this module into SFML. And as Haikarainen said, I don't modify/overwrite anything, I just add functionnalities and classes (which all begin with Secure*).

Thank you both for your support .

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SFML projects / Secure SFML (encrypted sockets)

« on: November 30, 2011, 02:09:04 am »

Hey everybody !

This is an SFML plugin I created for one of my project a week ago : SSFML (Secure SFML).
It allows you to establish crypted connections between Sockets (for now only on TCP).

It's based off SFML 2

The process uses key encapsulation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_encapsulation ), meaning that it first instantiates an RSA connection in order to transfer a symmetric algorithm key, and then all the data is crypted and transferred using a stream cipher (symmetric crypting algorithm)

Currently supported ciphers :

- RC4 (key size : 5-256 Bytes)
- AES (key size : 16/24/32 Bytes)

This plugin requires openssl as an additionnal dependency.

Git Repository : https://github.com/Elyotna/SecureSFML

Examples of using this module are in the repository. You'll be pleased to notice that it really isn't much different from a regular SFML-network implementation. (meaning that it won't be hard to convert your unencrypted architecture to this one if you wish to)

I also tried to make the compile/install phase as easy as possible. For now, it uses cmake and can be installed easily on linux (read README.Txt).

Note : For now, this doesn't support authentification/signature along with certificates, hence not protecting the data against a man-in-the-middle attack.

Of course, it is still in its developpement phase, so... feedback would be really appreciated (bugs/suggestions/critics..). The most important "problem" is that I have no idea whether this is gonna work on a 32-bit machine or not.

So if you can, I would gladly appreciate tests made between 32-32, 32-64 and 64-32bit machines.
The only one I'm sure about is the 64-64bit case where this should work just fine.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

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General / Using Eclipse

« on: May 01, 2010, 12:44:44 pm »

I haven't used it for a long time, but last time I did it was horribly slow. There are much better IDEs on Windows.

Even if newer versions can't be as fast as Visual C++ or others, the last (3.5) is quite fast though.. Well, that's mainly because it's written in java .

I never used netbeans, nor I tried it. I'll check it out someday .

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General / Using Eclipse

« on: April 30, 2010, 01:52:02 pm »

I'm trying to use Eclipse as my new IDE.

You shouldn't, unless you're forced to

Yeah, why not ? Eclipse IDE with cdt plugin for C++ is quite good, why shouldn't we use it ?