MLS Gov: composable, end-to-end encrypted messaging for governance research

Code for Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging (S&P 2024)

Security (Or Lack Thereof)

As the name suggests, this was designed for research and not for production, so it might provide less-than-expected security and privacy. Please, do not use this for anything that requires real-world privacy; for that, consider Signal.

Overview

1. Under the hood, we use the MLS protocol via openmls.
2. We use "Community" messaging model (cite?) which is a generalization of group messaging to include public and private channels and DMs (think Slack or Discord).

Workspace Structure

Source

• corelib implements the core client and server logic.
• delivery_server implements an delivery service.
• auth_server implements an authentication service.
• client implements a web client.

Documentation

• book documents running and modifying the system.

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License

animated-adventure is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

Thanks

This would not have been possible without the following amazing open-source projects.

• openmls --- core MLS.
• RustCrypto --- core cryptography.

Citation

If you use animated-adventure in research, please cite it using the following bibtex:

(bibtex with zenodo doi)