First term Planning

Here I present a first plan of the first term period. Numbered items correspond to top level requirement items. Also, dates are maximum values, hopefully it won't take that long!

• Develop a java library that handles encryption (see The current state of OTR libraries in Java)
  • Build methods to Assemble/Dissasemble OTR Messages and tests to verify things work properly
    • OTR Query Messages
    • Tagged plaintext messages
    • OTR Error Messages (May 20)
    • D-H Commit Message
    • D-H Key Message
    • Reveal Signature Message
    • Signature Message
    • Data Message (May 25)
  • Handle state transitions for the following actions (detailed description of state transitions here),build key management infrastructure (NOTE: key management for the library, not SC) and build tests to verify things work properly
    In this period functionality for Requesting an OTR conversation, Authenticated Key Exchange (AKE), and Data Exchange will be added.
    • Plaintext message without the whitespace tag
    • Plaintext message with the whitespace tag
    • Query Message
    • Error Message
    • D-H Commit Message
    • D-H Key Message (June 10)
    • Reveal Signature Message
    • Signature Message
    • Version 1 Key Exchange Message
    • Data Message
    • User requests to start an OTR conversation
    • User requests to end an OTR conversation
    • User types a message to be sent (June 25)
• Create a transformation operation set
• Implement support for the transformation set in all protocols
• Implement an OTR encryption bundle prototype/proof of concept that encrypts all conversations (July 05)

Comments and critiques are very welcome :-)