Anuj Sharma | WebAssembly Based TypeScript Wrapper For Ockam Protocols In Rust

[theanujdev]

Hello Ockam Team! I am Anuj Sharma, a pre-final year computer science student from Army Institute of Technology, Pune. I'm a Full Stack developer and have worked on lot of personal projects and internships as well. I’m also exploring web-assembly and know the basics of Rust (built CLI games and experimented with it using cargo, popular rand library, etc.). Also, I am interested in it as it is one of the best suited languages for wasm modules (went with Rust since it is memory safe & it’s compiled .wasm file is small compared to Go as it doesn’t bundle with garbage collector). That's why I'm looking forward to working on this interesting project!

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[theanujdev]

Proposal Description

In project "WebAssembly Based TypeScript Wrapper For Ockam Protocols In Rust", we need to implement the rust implementation of Ockam into WebAssembly (as rust can be easily compiled to wasm modules whose performance is close to native and works with web as well). These wasm modules can be integrated and wrapped with typescript which will enable web developers to use end-to-end encryption and all other benefits of Ockam easily!

I've read your awesome documentation and community call video which helped me to understand the working of Ockam. It enables developers to connect and transport data with end to end encryption with the help of nodes and workers. Transport allows sending data (Ockam routing message) with TCP, UDP, WebSockets, Bluetooth, etc. Ockam routing message is like an object with fields like onward route (node to be transported to), return route and payload.

Timeline

(Following is a rough estimation of timeline which I tried to provide)

• Week 1 - Community bonding, going through documentation and codebase to get started with the project.
• Week 2 - Understanding with web assembly
• Week 3 - Start with WebAssembly modules from rust
• Week 4 - Convert node, workers into wasm module
• Week 5 - Convert routing, transport into wasm module
• Week 6 - Convert secure channels into wasm module
• Week 7 - Start with wrapper functions in typescript which integrates with wasm modules
• Week 8-10 - Complete with all wrapper functions of typescript.
• Week 10-12 - Enhancements, testing, bug fixes