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| author | Tom Smeding <tom.smeding@gmail.com> | 2020-07-29 10:40:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom Smeding <tom.smeding@gmail.com> | 2020-07-29 10:40:24 +0200 |
| commit | bd8546c49594fddb4a41b5eb5bd82719c3c5e4f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b1e2234107c4758b5df3183fc7923aee67163ab | |
| parent | 2ec25e126f54ba1e12c5b98a7d345f18fc52e898 (diff) | |
protocol: Clarify necessity of a secure transport
| -rw-r--r-- | protocol.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/protocol.md b/protocol.md index 8bbba49..ff6651b 100644 --- a/protocol.md +++ b/protocol.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ # tomsg protocol (version 2) -The underlying transport of the protocol is a plain TCP socket. The individual -messages are all line-based; this means that a single message, both -client->server and server->client, always ends with a newline (ASCII 10) +The underlying transport of the protocol is a plain TCP socket. However, +because private information is communicated, the recommended transport is an +encrypted and authenticated wrapper around a TCP socket; examples are an SSH +connection, or something built on a TLS connection. + +The individual messages are all line-based; this means that a single message, +both client->server and server->client, always ends with a newline (ASCII 10) character. Preliminary definitions: |