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Google Summer Of Code 2021
Hush is a first-time organization applying to GSoC 2021!
Idea List
Port BTC Core bitcoin-asmap to Hush
This is currently a Bitcoin Core Pull Request on Github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18573
This is something the Hush community also wants, as it helps protect against new network-level attacks like the "Erebus Attack" https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg
Type: Coding Languages: C/C++, Rust
web: Improving Hush Smart Chain Creator
Type: Coding, Documentation, Graphics Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript
This would involved porting some of the documentation from our upstream, with various changes:
web: Improving Hush Full Node Config Generator
Type: Coding, Documentation, Graphics Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript
https://hush.is/config-generator
hushd: Tor version 3 Hidden Service P2P
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.
SilentDragon: GUI tab showing Peer Info
Add a GUI tab to SD that shows information from getpeerinfo, specifically:
- IP address
- Ping time
- TLS cipher used
- ASN (Autonomous System Number)
This is important to make it easier for users to see who their peers are, including metrics to decide if they are under attack. This data is currently very hard to see except for command-line users.
SilentDragon: HushDEX QT GUI
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.
mobile: Android Lite Wallet
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.