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@ -33,23 +33,3 @@ The Status Protocol uses [Whisper in version 6](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki
Note: there is one more cross-layer dependency in the Status Protocol between the privacy and data layers. Whisper uses topics to reduce traffic and preliminarily filter out messages. However, selecting a topic depends on the type of the message that is a topic for 1-1 chat will be different from a topic for a public chat.
Please refer to [Initial Transport Privacy through Whisper Specification](x7.md) for more details.
# P2P layer
P2P layer allows various clients to securely communicate with each other through the internet in a decentralized fashion, eventually forming a peer-to-peer network. Due to our close relationship to Ethereum and the fact that Whisper is built on top of [devp2p](https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p), we use [devp2p](https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p) as a P2P layer.
A client in order to rely a message needs to first find other clients (this process is called node discovery and is out of scope of this specification) within the peer-to-peer network. Then, the message needs to be properly routed handling obstacles like NAT traversal. All these things are handled by devp2p.
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# Dependencies between layers
As it was mentioned above, there are cases when two layers depend on one another:
* encrypting messages is done by the privacy layer instead of security layer
* the privacy layer needs to know some details of the payload to properly route it.
In the next version of the protocol, we will try to remove these dependencies so that all layers are orthogonal and if necessary there is a clean interface between one and another.