I've been particularly impressed with their amazing ability to avoid mentioning any details about the projects implementation. The following is a list of featu

I've been particularly impressed with their amazing ability to avoid mentioning any details about the projects implementation. The following is a list of features the future might bring (if I understand the project page correctly: http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html) OpenID I assume this is the standard they will use for authentication? What about this encryption business? Do they intend to modify the OpenID protocol to do some sort of challenge/reponse step and exchange keys? Voice-over IP I'm at a loss for what this means or how it is important to the project. Are they implementing a specific protocol, using a particular libary, or are they going to attempt rolling their own system? Distributed Encrypted Backups Backups of what? Distributed why? How? Instant Messaging protocol There are a plethora of existing protocols they could use. Since they haven't specified a particular one, does it mean they haven't decided which one to use yet? Are they planning to build their own "encrypted" protocol? Magic? UDP integration Whoa. Integration. With UDP? Mind-blowing. I'm assuming that they'll be building the broad-casting bits of the P2P architecture on UDP. It's what most distributed, encrypted P2P networks do. Oh right, there are already dozens of them and have been for years. I guess these kids are just too young to remember: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE - - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx (before it got bought by MS and turned into corporate turf) - soulseek, gnutella, freenet, etc. Wonder how they're planning to break that extra 10x