Private chat for the post-quantum era
A Python CLI peer-to-peer messenger where every node listens, connects, and exchanges encrypted messages with a hybrid X25519 and ML-KEM session handshake.
The archive contains the installable Python package, source code, tests, license, and README for PQCove Chat.
Verify the archive before installing. The checksum below is SHA-256 for
pqcove-chat-0.1.0.zip.
47bf3d6b5e2f08bd8583861f8c691bea6989391e4674fcec5e32643eb3d38103
PQCove Chat is released under the Quantum General Public License (QGPL) v3.0 — Quantum-Safe Edition.
The application archive includes the full QGPL text as
LICENSE. The canonical license source is qgpl.org.
QGPL-3.0
Quantum-safe copyleft for observation outputs and related
materials, with distribution metadata requirements.
PQCove Chat needs Python 3.11 or newer. Use --insecure-dev-mode only
for local demos when liboqs is not installed.
Expand-Archive .\pqcove-chat-0.1.0.zip -DestinationPath .\pqcove-chat-0.1.0
cd .\pqcove-chat-0.1.0\pqcove-chat-0.1.0
py -3.11 -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install .
pqcove --helpunzip pqcove-chat-0.1.0.zip
cd pqcove-chat-0.1.0
python3.11 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install .
pqcove --helpunzip pqcove-chat-0.1.0.zip
cd pqcove-chat-0.1.0
python3.11 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install .
pqcove --helpPQCove Chat is a research prototype, not an independently audited cryptographic product.
X25519 and ML-KEM-768 combine into directional AES-256-GCM session keys.
Each session derives a matching 9-digit pairing PIN: XXX-XXX-XXX.
Private keys are encrypted at rest with passphrase-based scrypt and AES-GCM.
The zip includes source and tests so the protocol path can be inspected locally.