Barracuda

An ad-hoc chat program developed in the software development course at the TU-Braunschweig. Barracuda (by Stephan Friedrichs, Henning Günther, Oliver Mielentz and Martin Wegner) implements an ad-hoc (p2p) network. On top of that, a chat application has been realised. Just like in IRC, the communication is organised in channels. A channel may be anonymous (the messages' origin is obscured), private (encrypted, only invited users may join them) or public (free for all users). The design is elaborated in a series of RFCs (see for example http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-strauss-p2p-chat). The Darcs repository can be found at http://repos.mroot.net/sep07-adhoc