Duke Leto
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README.md
Project List
mobile: Android Lite Wallet
Type: Coding, Graphics, UI/UX
Languages: Kotlin Android App
Difficulty: Medium to Challenging
Currently Hush has an Android app on the Google Play store, but it is a "remote control" and requires a desktop computer to pair a full node. Many people around the world do not own a desktop and only own a mobile device. This has made us rethink our stance on purely mobile wallets, where private keys are stored locally on-device.
This idea would be adding an important feature to https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonAndroid such that the user can create a wallet without connecting/pairing to their full node on a desktop, what is called a "lite wallet". This means generating a "seedphrase" which the user backs up by writing on a peice of paper. That seedphrase is sufficient to recover any private keys of all addresses in the wallet.
This idea would be coding in Kotlin in an established Android App codebase, specifically, to add this Kotlin dependency to the app: https://git.hush.is/hush/kotlin-bip39 and also a GUI to do the following things:
- Generate a new seedphrase, show to user
- Verify user has written down seedphrase, via choosing words on-screen
- Restore wallet from seedphrase
- Extra credit: Sweep funds from private key in QR code into current wallet
More info on HushDroid: https://git.hush.is/hush/hushdroid
Port HushChat GUI from SDL to SD
Type: Coding
Languages: C++14, QT5, Rust, Makefile, bash scripts
Difficulty: Challenging
This is an exciting project to port the functionality of HushChat from our lite wallet into our GUI full node wallet. Currently HushChat Protocol whitepaper is in development and we have a plan for how to migrate code. A lot of the GUI code will be re-used, QT5 has re-usable XML files that we can use as the basis of the SD HushChat GUI.
HushChat is a decentralized encrypted messaging platform, which is Free Software, and can be "federated" with the public "HUSH mainnet" or people can create their own encrypted messaging platforms on their own servers. The HUSH Twitter account and Duke Leto's LinkedIn have explanations about HushChat.
Port Zcash iOS wallet to Hush
Type: Coding
Languages: C++, Swift, iOS
Difficulty: Medium to Challenging
Currently we have no mobile wallet on iOS and this project would be to port code from the Zcash project to work with Hush. This would involve changing the code to use the Hush fork of librustzcash and UI/UX changes related to different currency units, documentation, links and disabling transparent address support.
https://github.com/zcash/ZcashLightClientKit
Package SilentDragon with Tor
Type: Coding/Packaging
Languages: Build system scripts, Make, autoconfig
Difficulty: Medium to Challenging
We want our users to have the protections of Tor out-of-the-box, without doing anything extra, like Tor Browser. This task will have students take the latest stable version of Tor at the time, and build a Docker environment where anybody can easily "spin up" a SD instance which connects to the local Tor middle node running on localhost. At first this project will only target Linux support, but it needs to be written in a way that future support for Mac+Windows is not painful.
Hush Full Node Tor optimizations/improvements
Type: Coding
Languages: C/C++
Difficulty: Easty to Medium
Many new improvements related to Tor have been merged into Bitcoin Core recently, which are compatible with Hush, since we are based on Bitcoin Protocol. These are related to new security and performance improvements, and relate with, but are independent of, the previous task of SD+Tor.
One is better tracking of Tor nodes, as different from nodes connecting via the local network and another is to prevent Tor nodes from getting banned as easily as other nodes, since they often have much less bandwidth and higher latency.
These are some related Gitea issues:
web: Improving Hush Smart Chain Creator with Interactive Docs
Type: Coding, Documentation, Graphics
Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript
Difficulty: Easy
This would involved porting some of the documentation from our upstream, with various changes:
There are many more advanced features that the config-generator could learn about, and more importantly, this website is a perfect place to teach people interactively.
web: Improving Hush Full Node Config Generator with Interactive Docs
Type: Coding, Documentation, Graphics
Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript
Difficulty: Easy
Currently the Hush Config Generator is very useful for CLI users to generate config files, which is done automatically for GUI users: https://hush.is/config-generator
Like above, there are many places where links to documentation and videos would make the CG more useful, explaining command-line arguments, adding Frequently Asked Questions and giving some examples of common scenarios.
hushd: Tor version 3 Hidden Service P2P
Type: Coding, testing
Languages: C/C++, bash scripting, command line Unix
Difficulty: Medium
This idea would be to work directly with Duke Leto to merge the p2p branch of https://git.hush.is/hush/hush3 ,
which is the Hush Full Node, to add support for Tor v3 HS's. This will involve porting code from Bitcoin master branch
at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin , which recently gained support for Tor v3. Currently Hush only supports Tor v2, which is being deprecated by the Tor Network, due to it's susceptibility to attacks.
This task involves coding in C++, and doing network-based tests over Tor to verify things work correctly, which will require running at least two and potentially many nodes to simulate some network conditions. This will be done with various other developers that can help students learn how to setup the environment and run the test suite.
SilentDragon: HushDEX QT GUI
Type: Coding
Languages: C++14 with QT5
Difficulty: Medium to Challenging
This idea would be to add the frontend GUI component for HushDEX, a decentralized network for privacy coins. The code would be in SilentDragon at https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragon . Specifically, a new tab in the GUI will be created for HushDEX, to allow swapping between HUSH and Monero (XMR). More details can be found here: https://hush.is/hushdex
This involves coding in C++14 and QT5 GUI framework. QT Creator is an IDE GUI that you can use to create and edit these interfaces: https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/
Hush uses QT 5.15 currently and does not plan to upgrade to QT6.