# Design Decisions

  • Full ed25519 public keys for peer identifiers (instead of fingerprints)
  • Peer's public key must be known in order to be able to connect or exchange messages
    • Mutual TLS used for establishing TCP connections
    • Derived shared secret used for encrypting relayed messages
  • Transport agnostic object based communication
  • Encoding agnostic objects
    • Object keys include a hint that defines the expected type of their value
    • Object attributes have a limited set of types (int, float, string, bytes, bool, map, array)
      • No null type (not final)
  • Encoding agnostic object hashes
    • Null values are ignored
    • Empty arrays and maps are ignored
    • Maps keys are sorted
    • Floats are normalized as IEEE float (not final)
    • Integers are normalized as strings
  • Discovery is delegated to a sub-set of the network's peers

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