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GSoC 2017 - Improving unMessage's Code Quality

Mentored by David Stainton and meejah, the goal of this project is teaching Felipe how to work with asynchronous programming, how to use [Twisted] better, how to test the software and how to use Continuous Integration, while applying it to unMessage to improve its code quality and contributing to its maturity as a messenger which the community can benefit from.

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unMessage: an anonymity enhanced instant messenger

In an age where spying, surveillance and censorship evidently became regular practices by various kinds of attackers, it is sensible to be concerned about instant messaging applications, which are very popular communication tools that handle private and identifying information. Such a scenario demands solutions to prevent users from harm these attacks might cause.

There are currently good solutions such as [Signal], [Wire] and

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#!/usr/bin/env python
from twisted.internet import reactor, defer
from twisted.internet.endpoints import TCP4ServerEndpoint
from twisted.web import server, resource
from twisted.internet.task import react

from stem.control import Controller


CONTROL_PORT = 9051

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