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  title: "Researching All Layers"
  text: "Concerned with all layers in the stack including underlying
    transports, p2p overlays and routing, initial trust establishment, and
    semantics for things like group chat."

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  title: "Peer-to-Peer"
  text: "The protocols we work on are pure peer-to-peer, and aim to minimize
    centralization. This too is in opposition to many initiatives in the
    secure messaging space."

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  title: "Security, Privacy, Censorship Resistance"
  text: "Assumes the basics such as end-to-end encryption, forward secrecy,
    avoiding MITM-attacks. Vac also places a premium on privacy and
    censorship resistance from port blocking, traffic analysis, and
    similar."

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  title: "Modular System"
  text: "Provide options at each layer in the stack, instead of having a
    tightly coupled set of protocols. Allowing developers to choose what
    they use and ensure they know each choice comes with different
    trade-offs."

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  title: "Generalized Messaging"
  text: " This includes both human to human communication, as well as machine to
    machine communication. Texting, data transfer, financial transactions,
    state channels and more."