README.md

Standalone Rendezvous Server

A standalone libp2p rendezvous server binary.

Usage

Run the rendezvous_server:

rendezvous_server --secret-file <PATH-TO-SECRET-FILE> --port 8888

If you are running server for the first time, you can create the secret by using --generate-secret flag.

Run rendezvous_server --help for more options

TLS configuration

You can test with self signed certificates using openssl:

1. Create certificate:

# generate pass key to be used for generating private key
openssl genrsa -aes256 -passout pass:gsahdg -out server.pass.key 4096
# generate private key
openssl rsa -passin pass:gsahdg -in server.pass.key -out server.key
# remove pass key
rm server.pass.key

# create certificate signing request
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

# create self signed certificate from private key and signing request
openssl x509 -req -sha256 -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

2. Convert certificate to der format to be compatible with libp2p's TlsConfig:

# convert private key to der
openssl rsa -inform pem -in server.key -outform der -out server_pk.der
# convert certificate to der
openssl x509 -inform pem -in server.crt -outform der -out server_cert.der