CAKE

Summary

CAKE is a networking protocol in which all messages are addressed to a public key, and are signed by the source public key. Public key identifiers are treated like IP addresses. They represent the destination or source of any particular message.

For why I chose to make CAKE this way, you may want to check out "CAKE Philosophy and Goals".

If you think CAKE is an interesting project, and would like to donate money to encourage me and keep the website afloat, then I do have a PayPal account, and you can make a donation here:

Or, if you would prefer, I also accept bitcoin donations to this bitcoin address:

1LXGyuGGjHissfWdV1yaEbsE79rC6hKtML

Detailed documentation

Right now, I just have a collection of documents that aren't tied together especially well. Here's a nice list of them:

Stuff that'll be true of all versions of CAKE.

• CAKE Philosophy and Goals
• Basic types used in building CAKE messages

CAKE protocol version 2

The only implementation currently available is version 0, so this documentation is for a version I hope to implement and release soon.

• Version 2 CAKE Messages

CAKE protocol version 0 (deprecated)

• CAKE Message Numbers
• The family of single destination, non-session messages

Project resources

There are a number of resources (aside from the code repository itself) associated with this project. Among them are:

• The CAKE Wiki which currently does not allow any posts with URLs in them because of spammers.
• A Trac instance which is currently in a rather sad and moribund state (and still refers to the old Subversion repository). Also, it uses SSL and a certificate that I've signed, but no recognized CA has signed.
• And, of course, there's the CAKE mailing list.

I just want to see code!

It's mostly written in Python right now. I'm using Mercurial to manage the revision history, and a browsable version of the history can be found at the CAKE repository, and this link can also be used with Mercurial to clone your own copy of the repository with this command:

hg clone http://hg.omnifarious.org/~hopper/CAKE

If you just want a tarball, you can download a tarball of the latest version. Unfortunately, right now the tarball will not contain the sub-repositories with the SHA2 code and the AES code the project needs. I will be upgrading to a version of Mercurial that will do this soon.

Links

Posts I've made in a various places about CAKE:

• LiveJournal posts I've made:
  
  • More CAKE! (progress report 2003-08-10)
  • Progress report 2003-07-14
  • What do I name it?
• Advogato post explaining it and asking about a name
• Slashdot post I made in response to an article asking about SMTP replacements for spam control