The secio protocol is a middleware that will encrypt and decrypt communications going through a socket (or anything that implements AsyncRead + AsyncWrite).

Connection upgrade

The SecioConfig struct implements the ConnectionUpgrade trait. You can apply it over a Transport by using the with_upgrade method. The returned object will also implement Transport and will automatically apply the secio protocol over any connection that is opened through it.

# fn main() {
use futures::Future;
use libp2p_secio::{SecioConfig, SecioOutput};
use libp2p_core::{Multiaddr, identity, upgrade::apply_inbound};
use libp2p_core::transport::Transport;
use libp2p_tcp::TcpConfig;
use tokio_io::io::write_all;
use tokio::runtime::current_thread::Runtime;

let dialer = TcpConfig::new()
.with_upgrade({
# let private_key = &mut [];
// See the documentation of `identity::Keypair`.
let keypair = identity::Keypair::rsa_from_pkcs8(private_key).unwrap();
SecioConfig::new(keypair)
})
.map(|out: SecioOutput<_>, _| out.stream);

let future = dialer.dial("/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/12345".parse::<Multiaddr>().unwrap())
.unwrap()
.map_err(|e| panic!("error: {:?}", e))
.and_then(|connection| {
// Sends "hello world" on the connection, will be encrypted.
write_all(connection, "hello world")
})
.map_err(|e| panic!("error: {:?}", e));

let mut rt = Runtime::new().unwrap();
let _ = rt.block_on(future).unwrap();
# }

Manual usage

Note: You are encouraged to use SecioConfig as described above.

You can add the secio layer over a socket by calling SecioMiddleware::handshake(). This method will perform a handshake with the host, and return a future that corresponds to the moment when the handshake succeeds or errored. On success, the future produces a SecioMiddleware that implements Sink and Stream and can be used to send packets of data.