The second week of GSoC is over! My Jingle implementation progresses.

Most of my efforts went into designing the state machine behind the Jingle and Jingle File Transfer protocol. Because I never really worked with asynchronous communication, let alone network code before, it takes some time to get my head around that.

I’m heavily utilizing the water fall development model – I code until I get stuck at some point I did not consider at all, then I create a new class and start over again. This is very tideous, but I make slow progress towards working Jingle Socks5 Bytestream transports!

All in all I predict, that it’ll take its time to fully complete the Jingle implementation so that it covers every corner case.

Introducing JET!

While working on my Jingle code, I also started writing down my plans for Jingle Encrypted Transfers (jet). My goal is to keep that specification as simple as possible while providing a reasonable way to exchange encrypted data. I decided, that hiding metadata is not in the scope of this document for now, but can later be specified in a seperate document. Contributions and thoughts regarding encrypted Jingle file transfer are welcome 🙂

Happy Hacking!