Transphase/transphase/docs/Message.md

Transmat message format

ver. 0.1

Message

• msgtype (announce, data, confirmation)
• per_group_id
• role (send, receive)
• payload (encrypted payload containing file chunks and service metadata)
• TODO - Add protocol version number

Payload

• filename (current filename without path)
• chunk_size (size of each chunk)
• chunk_id (number of current chunk)
• numbr of chunks (total number of chunks in file)
• chunk (current data)
• TODO - Add a hash of the chunk data to use in confirmation messages