General project documentation such as the protocol specification can be found in our home repository.

This project is not actively developed anymore. It is still kept as reference for other projects. Developing a messaging application from scratch with an own protocol is simply too much work for two students in their freetime. Information about our plans for the future of Skynet will be published in the home repository.

The Skynet server solution contains three projects:

• SkynetServer - .NET Core console application with a TLS socket or a management CLI
• SkynetServer.Shared - .NET Core class library with database and model implementation
• SkynetServer.Web - ASP.NET Core MVC for mail address verification

Enums, packets, etc. are implemented in the Skynet libraries and referenced as NuGet packages.

Tools for setting up a database server on Windows have been moved to the PSModules repository.

Several steps need to be taken to generate a new certificate for Skynet:

1. openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -out prime256v1.pem
2. openssl genpkey -paramfile prime256v1.pem -out key.pem
3. openssl req -nodes -x509 -key key.pem -out cert.cer -subj "/C=DE/ST=Hessen/CN=Skynet Messenger" -addext "subjectAltName = DNS:skynet.lerchen.net" -days 365
4. openssl pkcs12 -export -out cert.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.cer