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| author | Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> | 2020-05-19 17:22:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> | 2020-05-19 17:22:11 +0200 |
| commit | cf544c81508690a6b0318134cf4a299910e1e13c (patch) | |
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content: Emphasize encryption of FRCP
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| -rw-r--r-- | content/en/docs/Overview/_index.md | 15 |
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diff --git a/content/en/docs/Overview/_index.md b/content/en/docs/Overview/_index.md index fe5e36c..9fd9970 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/Overview/_index.md +++ b/content/en/docs/Overview/_index.md @@ -51,13 +51,14 @@ Some of the main _features_ are: * The Ouroboros end-to-end protocol performs flow control, error control and reliable transfer and is implemented as part of the - _application library_. Sequence numbers, acknowledgments, flow control - windows... The last thing the application does (or should do) is - encrypt everything before it hands it to the network layer for - delivery. With this functionality in the library, it's easy to force - encryption on _every_ flow that is created from your machine over - Ouroboros regardless of what the application programmer has - requested. + _application library_. Sequence numbers, acknowledgments, flow + control windows... The last thing the application does (or should + do) is encrypt everything before it hands it to the network layer + for delivery. With this functionality in the library, it's easy to + force encryption on _every_ flow that is created from your machine + over Ouroboros regardless of what the application programmer has + requested. Unlike TLS, the end-to-end header (sequence number etc) + is fully encrypted. * The flow allocation API works as an interface to the network. An Ouroboros network layer is therefore "aware" of all traffic that it |