guardianproject/signal-cli-android

Name: signal-cli-android

Owner: Guardian Project

Description: signal-cli (formerly textsecure-cli) provides a commandline and dbus interface for WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java

Forked from: AsamK/signal-cli

Created: 2017-11-06 14:30:51.0

Updated: 2018-01-05 02:08:00.0

Pushed: 2017-12-25 08:36:38.0

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Language: Java

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README

signal-cli

signal-cli is a commandline interface for libsignal-service-java. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to link to an existing Signal-Android/signal-cli instance, signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, because libsignal-service-java does not yet support provisioning as a slave device. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls. signal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus interface, that can be used to send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings.

Installation

You can build signal-cli yourself, or use the provided binary files, which should work on Linux, macOS and Windows. For Arch Linux there is also a package in AUR. You need to have at least JRE 7 installed, to run signal-cli.

Install system-wide on Linux

See latest version.

rt VERSION=<latest version, format "x.y.z">
 https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v"${VERSION}"/signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz
 tar xf signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz -C /opt
 ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-"${VERSION}"/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/

Usage

Important: The USERNAME (your phone number) must include the country calling code, i.e. the number must start with a “+” sign. (See Wikipedia for a list of all country codes.

• Register a number (with SMS verification)

  signal-cli -u USERNAME register
  

• Verify the number using the code received via SMS or voice

  signal-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
  

• Send a message

  signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" RECIPIENT
  

• Pipe the message content from another process.

  uname -a | signal-cli -u USERNAME send RECIPIENT
  

• Receive messages

  signal-cli -u USERNAME receive
  

For more information read the man page and the wiki.

Storage

The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in the current users home directory:

    $HOME/.config/signal/data/

For legacy users, the old config directory is used as a fallback:

    $HOME/.config/textsecure/data/

Building

This project uses Gradle for building and maintaining dependencies. If you have a recent gradle version installed, you can replace ./gradlew with gradle in the following steps.

1. Checkout the source somewhere on your filesystem with

   git clone https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli.git
   

2. Execute Gradle:

   ./gradlew build
   

3. Create shell wrapper in build/install/signal-cli/bin:

   ./gradlew installDist
   

4. Create tar file in build/distributions:

   ./gradlew distTar
   

Troubleshooting

If you use a version of the Oracle JRE and get an InvalidKeyException you need to enable unlimited strength crypto. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6481627/java-security-illegal-key-size-or-default-parameters for instructions.

License

This project uses libsignal-service-java from Open Whisper Systems:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java

Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html