Galactic Host

This is the server part of Galactic Pub. Includes the following sub-projects.

Voting

A privacy first voting platform powered by blockchain technology. Inspired by stellot. Work-in-progress.

How does it work?

Casting a vote

It's based on blind signatures.

1. The voter first authenticates with server. In order to get a vote token anonymously, it creates a concealed request, which contains information about the voter's account where the vote token should be delivered.
2. The concealed request will be sent to the server for signing
3. From the signature on the concealed request voter creates the signature for the revealed request.
4. Voter becomes anonymous, and sends the revealed signature, and request to the server.
5. The server checks the revealed signature, so that it knows the anonymous voter is a participant of the voting in question.
6. Server sends back the transaction so that voter can obtain the vote token.

This project uses Quarkus, the Supersonic Subatomic Java Framework.

If you want to learn more about Quarkus, please visit its website: https://quarkus.io/.

Running the application in dev mode

You can run your application in dev mode that enables live coding using:

./mvnw compile quarkus:dev

NOTE: Quarkus now ships with a Dev UI, which is available in dev mode only at http://localhost:8080/q/dev/.

Packaging and running the application

The application can be packaged using:

./mvnw package

It produces the quarkus-run.jar file in the target/quarkus-app/ directory. Be aware that it’s not an über-jar as the dependencies are copied into the target/quarkus-app/lib/ directory.

The application is now runnable using java -jar target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar.

If you want to build an über-jar, execute the following command:

./mvnw package -Dquarkus.package.jar.type=uber-jar

The application, packaged as an über-jar, is now runnable using java -jar target/*-runner.jar.

Creating a native executable

You can create a native executable using:

./mvnw package -Dnative

Or, if you don't have GraalVM installed, you can run the native executable build in a container using:

./mvnw package -Dnative -Dquarkus.native.container-build=true

You can then execute your native executable with: ./target/galactic.host-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner

If you want to learn more about building native executables, please consult https://quarkus.io/guides/maven-tooling.

Provided Code

REST

Easily start your REST Web Services

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