https://github.com/tarcieri/webbus.erl

Original attempt at webbus in Erlang
https://github.com/tarcieri/webbus.erl

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Original attempt at webbus in Erlang

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tarcieri/webbus.erl
• Owner: tarcieri
• Created: 2012-09-05T06:44:30.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-09-05T06:56:21.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:13:29.477Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Erlang
• Size: 441 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Webbus.erl

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The goal of this project was to map the actor model into web browsers by

providing a socket.io service written in Erlang and assigning all clients

crypto-capabilities which control who can send messages where. Clients can

give out capabilities to other clients through various mechanisms, and once

Bob has obtained the capability to talk to Alice, Bob can send Alice messages.

The service provides a routing layer which can authenticate each address in

a decentralized manner using capabilities alone and determine the appropriate

node to route messages to. Planned features were capabilities-based pub/sub

(with separate, degradable capabilities to distinguish publishers from

subscribers) which would be the primary mechanism used to share capabilities.

Erlang was treating me all right for most of this project, but eventually I

gave it up to write Celluloid. It's a project I'd like to resume, in some form,

but I think this time around I'd like to try writing it with DCell.

Significance

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This is probably a non-notable project aside from the fact it's probably the

first published work that connects 4chan's tripcodes to crypto capabilities.