pastenym

This project is inspired from pastebin service. The main goal is to offer a solution for sharing text with Nym products to offer full anonymity, even on metadata level

Demo

Get shared text: https://pastenym.ch/#/cuc0yBM7&key=331362fb93d7d7730ae182660edba661

Share a text: http://pastenym.ch/

What Nym is developping ?

Nym is developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.

Architecture

How pastenym service will use Nym product

Your text is sent to a client which is connected to the Nym network and which stores it in a database (eventually a more distributed solution will be considered),

This system allows you to share information while respecting your privacy by protecting your data and metadata.

On the side of No Trust Verify we only see an anonymous id when sending the text, and therefore impossible to know who is behind and from where the data was sent. Moreover, data is end-to-end encrypted: your browser generates a key used to encrypt the text, the key is placed in the URL you share with your friends and is used in their browser to decrypt the text received by the server.

Schema

Init the project

Nym client

1. Download nym-client
2. Give exec permissions and init the client

chmod u+x nym-client
./nym-client init --id pastenym --gateway EBT8jTD8o4tKng2NXrrcrzVhJiBnKpT1bJy5CMeArt2w

3. Run the client ./nym-client run --id pastenym

Backend

It uses pipenv

1. Go to backend/
2. pipenv shell to start the python env
3. pipenv install to install the dependancies from the PipFile
4. python main.py to start the service. On the first run, it will create and initialize a local database at backend/data/data.db.

Contribute

If you wish to contribute to the project, you will need to run the Nym client and Backend as explained in the Init part above AND run a local frontend.

Frontend

NodeJS (v16.13.1) and NPM (v8.19.2) are used for the frontend.

1. Go to the frontend/ directory
2. Create a .env file with the same keys are in .env.example with your values. The REACT_APP_NYM_CLIENT_SERVER value should match the address displayed by the backend.
3. Run npm install and grab a cup of coffee
4. Run npm run start and go to http://localhost:8080 in your favorite browser.

Docker

1. Download the custom nym-client. It just a recompiled version that can listen to 0.0.0.0
2. Init the nym-client and copy files

cd nym-client
chmod u+x nym-client
./nym-client init --id docker-client --gateway EBT8jTD8o4tKng2NXrrcrzVhJiBnKpT1bJy5CMeArt2w
cp -r ~/.nym/clients/docker-client nym-data/clients

3. Change path in config.toml. For example with user root, search /home/root and replace by /home/user
4. docker compose up --build -d

Structure

• backend/ manage the websockets connections and DB
• frontend/ web application
• nym-client/ store the configuration,keys for the nym-client
• resources/ store img or files for documentation