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| Transport privacy | Routing, Metadata protection | Whisper |
| P2P Overlay | Overlay routing, NAT traversal | devp2p |
## Terminology
* *Client*: a Whisper node implementing the protocol
* *Whisper node*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled (in the case of geth, it's `--shh` option)
* *Status Whisper node*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled and additional Whisper extensions described below
* *Whisper network*: a group of Whisper nodes connected together through the internet connection and forming a graph
* *MailServer*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled and a mail server registered capable of storing and providing offline messages
* *Message*: decrypted Whisper message
* *Envelope*: encrypted message with some metadata like topic and TTL sent between Whisper nodes; a symmetric or asymmetric key is needed to decrypt it and read the payload
* *Offline message*: an expired envelope stored by a Whisper node permanently
## P2P Overlay
Status clients run on the public Ethereum network, as specified by the devP2P

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- [Whisper V6 extensions (or Status Whisper Node)](#whisper-v6-extensions-or-status-whisper-node)
- [New RPC methods](#new-rpc-methods)
# Terminology
* *Client*: a Whisper node implementing the protocol
* *Whisper node*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled (in the case of geth, it's `--shh` option)
* *Status Whisper node*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled and additional Whisper extensions described in [Whisper V6 extensions (or Status Whisper Node)](#whisper-v6-extensions-or-status-whisper-node)
* *Whisper network*: a group of Whisper nodes connected together through the internet connection and forming a graph
* *MailServer*: an Ethereum node with Whisper V6 enabled and a mail server registered capable of storing and providing offline messages
* *Message*: decrypted Whisper message
* *Envelope*: encrypted message with some metadata like topic and TTL sent between Whisper nodes; a symmetric or asymmetric key is needed to decrypt it and read the payload
* *Offline message*: an expired envelope stored by a Whisper node permanently
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
Additionally to encrypting messages on the Whisper level, the protocol supports PFS specification.