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Get familiar with the various repositories on our Github, in particular the monorepo
Developers should look at the Developer Guide and the Dockerized Mixnet Readme to build and run a local Katzenpost mixnet.
Open a pull request on Github. We will help with occurring problems and merge your changes back into the main project.

We have a lot of repositories! The top-level packages that you’ll probably want to look at first are:

Katzen a cross-platform minimum viable messenger app in purely in Go using Gioui framework that has extended beyond catchat
Catchat a QT cross-platform metadata minimizing messenger application utilizing catshadow.
Catshadow is a mix network messaging system. This repository contains a client library which can be used with a Katzenpost mix network. It not only uses strong modern end to end encryption (Noise + Double Ratchet), but it is also designed to reduce the amount of metadata leaked onto the network.
Client is a mixnet client library you can use to write applications that interact with mixnet services.
Server is the mix and provider daemons that route messages and run services.
Authority are the PKI daemons that provide key and service information to the network.
Server_Plugins are examples of a mixnet service plugins written in golang and rust.

See the Project-Ideas page on our wiki
Some of our other longer term projects ideas involving future research are documented here in various other tickets