Editing GNUnet (section)

== Social API ==
[[Gabor X Toth]] published in early September 2013 a thesis<ref>Toth, Gabor X (2013-09-05), [https://gnunet.org/design-social-messaging-system Design of a Social Messaging System Using Stateful Multicast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222032558/https://gnunet.org/design-social-messaging-system |date=2014-02-22 }} - Retrieved 2013-09-28</ref> to present the design of a [[social messaging]] service for the GNUnet peer-to-peer framework that offers scalability, extensibility, and end-to-end encrypted communication. The scalability property is achieved through multicast message delivery, while extensibility is made possible by using [[PSYC]] (Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing), which provides an extensible [[Remote procedure call|RPC]] (Remote Procedure Call) syntax that can evolve over time without having to upgrade the software on all nodes in the network. Another key feature provided by the PSYC layer are stateful multicast channels, which are used to store e.g. user profiles. End-to-end encrypted communication is provided by the mesh service of GNUnet, upon which the multicast channels are built. Pseudonymous users and social places in the system have cryptographical identities — identified by their public key — these are mapped to human memorable names using GNS ([[GNU Name System]]), where each pseudonym has a zone pointing to its places.

That is the required building block for turning the GNUnet framework into a fully [[Distributed social network|peer-to-peer social networking]] platform.