NAME

       CurveCP — Message-handling programs

SYNOPSIS

       curvecpmessage  [-q  (optional)]  [-Q (optional)]  [-v (optional)]  [-c (optional)]  [-C (optional)]  [-s
       (optional)]  [prog]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the CurveCP commands.

       A traditional UNIX-style server such as ftpd handles just one  network  connection,  reading  input  from
       stdin  and  writing  output  to  stdout.  A  "superserver" such as inetd or tcpserver listens for network
       connections and starts a separate server process for each connection.

       The CurveCP command-line tools have an extra level of modularity. The curvecpserver  superserver  listens
       for  network  connections.  For each connection, curvecpserver starts the curvecpmessage message handler;
       curvecpmessage then starts a server such as ftpd.  Then ftpd sends a stream of  data  to  curvecpmessage,
       which  in  turn  sends messages to curvecpserver, which encrypts and authenticates the messages and sends
       them inside network packets. At the same  time  curvecpclient  receives  network  packets,  verifies  and
       decrypts  messages  inside the packets, and passes the messages to curvecpmessage; curvecpmessage sends a
       stream of data to ftpd.  The same curvecpmessage tool is also used by curvecpclient.

       curvecpserver and curvecpclient can use programs other than curvecpmessage. Those programs  can  directly
       generate  messages  in the CurveCP message format without talking to separate tools such as ftpd; or they
       can support a completely different protocol that  reuses  CurveCP's  cryptographic  layer  but  transmits
       different kinds of messages.

OPTIONS

       How to use curvecpmessage:

       -q           optional
                 no error messages

       -Q           optional
                 print error messages (default)

       -v           optional
                 print extra information

       -c           optional
                 program is a client; server starts first

       -C           optional
                 program is a client that starts first

       -s           optional
                 program is a server (default)

       prog      run this server

SEE ALSO

       curvecpserver (1), curvecpclient (1), inetd (8), tcpserver (1).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Sergiusz Pawlowicz debian@pawlowicz.name for the Debian system (and may
       be used by  others).  The  source  of  this  page  is  a  webpage  https://curvecp.org/messageapi.html  .
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under public domain.

       This  manual  page was rewritten for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
       manual page.

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