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Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
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Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
Developers already use HTTPS to communicate with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The channel between FCM server endpoint and the device is encrypted with SSL over TCP. However, messages are not encrypted end-to-end (E2E) between the developer server and the user device unless developers take special measures. To this…