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Pica Pica Messenger. Getting Started.

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+This illustrated tutorial will introduce you to Pica Pica Messenger (or pica-client), client software for distributed decentralised instant messaging +system. The main goal of Pica Pica project is to maintain privacy of your communications by using strong end-to-end encryption based +on modern cryptographical standards and protocols. +

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First start. Creating account.

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+When you start pica-client for the first time, you'll have to create your new account. +

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+Click "Create New Account..." button. Let's say you want to use Anonymous as your nickname. Type it in the "Name:" field. +It is recommended to set checkbox "Set passphrase for the secret key", in this case private key associated with your account is +encrypted by passphrase and you have to enter it on each login (term "passphrase" is often used in cryptographic applications instead +of "password"). Click "Create" button and wait a little until public/private + key pair and certificate that represents your account are generated. +

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+Pica Pica users are uniquely identified by their ID which is a SHA224 hash function of their certificate. Your ID will be displayed +after certificate generation, and then you can copy it and send to friends, put on your website, print on business cards, etc. ID can +be viewed any time later by clicking menu item "Account -> Show My Pica Pica ID". Pica Pica IDs need to have such cryptic looking like +wYI8zxNi4XEcMCwi7BRdgOpwgiX+5e1mj6Xr1A== due to decentralised nature of the system. +

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+So you have successfully created your Pica Pica account. It's time to start using it. Click "OK" in the dialog box above and you'll see +initial window, but now drop-down list contains your newly created account and "Log In" button is enabled. Click this button. +

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+If you have set passphrase for your account, prompt will appear. Enter the passphrase and click "OK". +

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+Now pica-client will try +to make connections to known Pica Pica nodes and update list of active nodes, i.e nodes that are online, up and running. If some alive +node is found and connection is successful, pica-client will change its state to "Connected" and sitting bird icon (it is a common +magpie, Latin name "Pica pica") in system tray area will be changed to the flying bird icon. Now it's time to add some people to +your contact list. +

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Contacts.

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+Let's suppose that your friend Jane Doe has sent her Pica Pica ID to you. Right-click on the empty area of the main window (or select +menu item "Contacts") and click "Add Contact...". Paste received ID and click "OK". +

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+Newly added ID will appear in the contacts list, but without nickname yet. Double-click on this ID (or right-click and select +"Start Chat"). Chat window will be opened. Say "hi" to Jane. If she is online at this moment, message will be delivered and "+" +sign will appear to the left of the message. Also ID entry in the contacts list will be changed to nickname and ID in braces. +Remember that date and time indicated in chat window is your local date and time when the message was received or sent by you, +not the date and time when it was actually sent or received by your peer. Messages are sent by pressing "Enter", newline is added +by combination "Shift"+"Enter". If your contact is not online, outgoing messages are stored in local history and marked as undelivered. +Pica-client periodically tries to deliver them. +

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+Now let's suppose that your another friend John Smith has received your Pica Pica ID, created his account and wants to chat with you. You will +see this question +

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+You can click "Yes" to add him, "No" to ignore him or "Add to blacklist" to ban him forever. Because he is a friend, probably you +want to select "Yes". Then his name will appear in your contact list. +

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+It is strongly recommended to always verify Pica Pica ID of your new contacts in order to prevent "man-in-the-middle" attack. +Key exchange and identity verification is a fundamental problem of encrypted communications, so you have to take it seriously. +It's better to exchange Pica Pica IDs in person, but obviously that's not always possible. You can make phone calls +to your contacts and ask them to read their Pica Pica ID and check that it matches ID in your contact list (right-click on contact +and select "Show Pica Pica ID"), then read them your ID and make them verify it in their contact list. This procedure significantly +reduces risk of silently replacing ID by some adversary. However, I don't think that government agencies are totally uncapable of +imitating voice of selected person in real-time :) +

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Sending and receiving files.

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+You can exchange files using Pica Pica. Needless to say, file transfers are encrypted too. To send file, right-click on contact and +select "Send File". File selection dialog will ask you which file you want to send. +

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+Then file transfer window will show up. +

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+Receiver of file has to click "Accept" in order to start tranfer. +

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+Then file transfer starts. +

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