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Updated Whisper Push Notifications (markdown)

Victor Farazdagi 2017-04-11 02:09:45 +03:00
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# Overview
It is crucial to understand what is Whisper Notification Server is designed for:
- to augment Whisper/5 functionality, by allowing clients to register and receive notifications
It is crucial to understand what is **Whisper Notification Service** is designed for:
- to augment Whisper/5 functionality, by allowing clients to subscribe to arbitrary node that has service enabled
- once subscribed, client receives randomly generated symmetric key, which is used to control subscription (say, manage blacklists). Among other things, the key can be used to trigger notification, by-passing any black/white lists
- everywhere possible, Whisper protocol itself was used. For example, discovery mechanism is nothing more but Whisper message exchanges between parties. The same goes for notification sending.
- the aim was to keep the Notification Server part as slim as possible