Nalix

📖 About

Nalix is a real-time server solution designed for efficient communication and data sharing. It enables instant messaging, data synchronization, and secure networking, making it ideal for applications requiring live updates.

🛠️ Latest Builds

Environment	Status

✨ Features

• 🖥️ Cross-Platform – Runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS with .NET 10+.
• 🔄 Real-time communication – Supports instant messaging and state synchronization.
• 🔌 Pluggable Protocols – Easily add and swap network, serialization, or security protocols without modifying core logic.
• 🛤️ Custom Middleware – Define middleware to control authentication, validation, transformation, throttling, and more.
• ⚡ High performance – Designed to handle thousands of concurrent connections.
• 🔐 Security-focused – Implements encryption (ChaCha20-Poly1305, Salsa20-Poly1305) to protect data.
• 🛠️ Extensible – Easily customizable with your own protocols and handlers.
• 📡 Live Updates – Stay up to date with real-time updates, ensuring dynamic and responsive experiences.
• 💻 Modern C# Implementation – Leveraging cutting-edge C# features for clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• 🧩 SOLID & DDD Principles – Adhering to SOLID principles and Domain-Driven Design for a robust and scalable architecture.

🔧 Requirements

• .NET 10 and C# 14 support
• Install .NET SDK 10 from dotnet.microsoft.com
• Visual Studio 2026 Download Visual Studio

💻 Technologies

• C#

• .Net 10

• Console Debug Logging

• XUnit Testing

• BenchmarkDotNet

  

📈 Benchmarks

Note: All benchmarks are performed on .NET 10.0, Intel i7-13620H, Windows 11, using BenchmarkDotNet v0.15.8.

🔒 Envelope Encryption

Method	Payload	Algorithm	Mean	Allocated
Encrypt	128	SALSA20	356 ns	-
Decrypt	128	SALSA20	281 ns	48 B
Encrypt	8192	CHACHA20_POLY1305	48,649 ns	-
Decrypt	8192	CHACHA20_POLY1305	26,153 ns	48 B

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🏎️ X25519 ECC

Method	KeyPairCount	Mean	Allocated
X25519.GenerateKeyPair (CSPRNG + scalar mult)	1	65.36 μs	112 B
X25519.GenerateKeyFromPrivateKey (scalar only)	1	67.35 μs	112 B
X25519.Agreement (shared secret)	1	66.59 μs	56 B

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🔄 Serialization

Method	ArrayLength	Mean (ns)	Allocated
Serialize<int[]> ➔ byte[]	256	0.0476	-
Deserialize<int> <- ReadOnlySpan<byte> (ref)	256	0.1097	-
Serialize<LargeStruct> ➔ existing byte[] buffer	2048	0.0396	-
Deserialize<LargeStruct> <- ReadOnlySpan<byte> (ref)	2048	0.2274	1 B

... See more in the detailed benchmark report file.

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More details: See the docs/Nalix.Benchmarks folder in the repository for full data and additional test cases.

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📦 Available NuGet Packages

Package ID	Description
Nalix.SDK	Client-side SDK offering controllers, time sync, and localization utilities for connecting to Nalix.Network.
Nalix.Common	Core abstractions, enums, and shared contracts for the Nalix ecosystem.
Nalix.Logging	Asynchronous and high-performance logging subsystem with batching and multiple sinks.
Nalix.Network	Core networking runtime providing TCP/UDP connections, protocol pipelines, and throttling.
Nalix.Framework	High-level framework providing identity, injection, randomization, and task orchestration.

📦 Installation

You can install Nalix packages individually via NuGet:

dotnet add package Nalix.SDK
dotnet add package Nalix.Common
dotnet add package Nalix.Logging
dotnet add package Nalix.Network
dotnet add package Nalix.Framework

All Nalix packages target .NET 10 with full support for C# 14 features.

🛠️ Contributing

When contributing, please read CONTRIBUTING.md for the development workflow, commit convention, and pull request guidelines. Please also follow our Code of Conduct and submit PRs with proper documentation and tests.

🛡️ Security

Please review our Security Policy for supported versions and vulnerability reporting procedures.

📜 License

Nalix is copyright © PhcNguyen - Provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

📬 Contact

For questions, suggestions, or support, open an issue on GitHub or contact the maintainers at ppn.system@gmail.com.

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