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Welcome to the Plexus Development WikiEdit

The Plexus Development Wiki is a collaborative website about the development and internals of Plexus - a social networking tool - that anyone can edit!

What is Plexus?Edit

Plexus is a personal, portable and private social networking tool.

What Plexus is:

• Simple
• Other people generate stuff,
• Listeners grab that stuff from disaggregated feeds,
• Plexus displays that stuff,
• The user generates more stuff in Plexus,
• Sharers grab that stuff and push it out.

Does Plexus share stuff that it listened for?

What Plexus is not:

• Plexus does not replace all of your other social networking tools. It works in concert with them.
• Anything else?

Plexus Components

• Front-End API: How does Plexus talk to whatever front-end applications want to interact with it. This will include the development of a protocol and security procedures for the client / Plexus interaction
• P2P API: How does Plexus-to-Plexus negotiation work? What operations should be allowed / forbidden?
• Sharers : A set of modules which take a given set of data, sending it out over the appropriate channel(s)
  • Privacy-aware, group-aware and network aware
  • i.e., can set privacy restriction level and only appropriate sharing paths will be used
• Listeners : A set of modules which constantly monitor a set of services for data

• Plex : The representation of the social graph.
• pCard : What does a next-generation ‘business card’ look like? What kind of data nuggets need to be passed around to make Plexus truly usable?
• Security Model: How privacy is stored, respected and implement. Includes:
  • Local encryption (of configuration? messages?)

• • Storage of credentials (system wallets will probably suffice)

• • Network communication encryption

• • Message payload signing and encryption (ie. gnupg)

• • Module / code agent credentials (trusted app status)

• Plugin modules / extensions
  • How do client apps interact with Plexus?
  • What is the plexus client API?
  • Can all clients access all pcards, or are there private pcards which can't be accessed by some modules? i.e. I don't want untrusted apps reading my pcards
  • What can I store back into the Plexus DB for cross-app sharing?

Plexus Client

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