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title: How does it work?
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The backbone of Waku Network is the Waku Relay protocol.
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It is a pubsub protocol based on libp2p gossipsub.
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Other Waku protocols have been defined to enable capabilities such as:
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1. retrieving **historical messages** for mostly-offline devices
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2. key turn solution for **encrypted communication** (symmetric encryption, ECIES/asymmetric encryption, noise handshake).
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3. preserving bandwidth usage for **resource-restricted devices**
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4. Economic **spam protection** (rate limit) with privacy preserving capabilities
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5. Mass deanonymization protection (research in progress)
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If you want to learn how Waku works under the hoods, check out the [10/WAKU2](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/10/) RFC.
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