Initially NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) gave rise to vast forums where like minded people could discuss politics, cats, even knitting.

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It is purely a value transfer protocol and it functions generally in accordance with the same distributed peer-to-peer principles as BitTorrent.

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Thermos also described an exploitable hole in ZRTP, one species of the VoIP language real-time transfer protocol: ZRTP encrypts all transmitted sounds, but not the numbers translated from tones.

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If you want to get a little more technical, take a look at whether the website you are using to transmit information is using HTTPS -- hypertext transfer protocol secure.

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The system IBM employs to achieve this, the hyperspeech transfer protocol (HSTP), is similar in principle to the hypertext transfer protocol that provides links from one conventional website to another.

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The protocol of intent signed today aims to transfer the accumulated knowledge to other countries through translation and dissemination of technologies by the same partners.

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