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README.md

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 This replaces the somewhat-outdated Vac overview here: https://hackmd.io/@vac/main/
 
+## About
+
+- **topics** - Notes on various topics.
+- **scratch** - Temporary, throw-away stuff.
+
 ## Contribute
 
 Best used together with Obsidan, but any text editor works.

scratch/vac-book-migration.md

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+
+https://hackmd.io/@vac/main
+
+- [ ] Vac overview
+- [ ] Tools and workfows
+- [ ] Waku v2 training
+- [ ] Research
+	- [ ] Intro
+	- [ ] Waku v1 vs Waku v2
+- [ ] Secure Messaging
+	- [ ] Overview
+	- [ ] 2023 priorities
+	- [ ] Team allocation
+- [ ] nwaku
+	- [ ] Intro
+- [ ] Waku Connect
+	- [ ] Intro, Waku Connect PM, Bounty ideas, Presentations
+	- captured elsewhere?
+- [ ] Outreach
+	- [ ] Platform
+	- [ ] Operator
+	- [ ] Research
+- [ ] Other
+	- [ ] Vac PM notes
+	- [ ] Onboarding guide

topics/secure-messaging-overview.md

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+
+# Secure Messaging (SeM) Overview
+
+> *Note*: This page is still WiP.
+This page will be published either as a page on `vac.dev`,
+or alternatively on `sem.vac.dev`.
+
+Vac's Secure Messaging (SeM) project researches and designs
+modular p2p protocols for scaling, secure, private, anonymous, and censorship-resistant communications.
+The main focus is [Waku](https://waku.org), the communication layer for Web3.
+
+The following tracks are part of SeM.
+
+### Secure Scaling
+
+[*Secure Scaling Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/154)
+
+The *secure scaling* track is concerned with scaling Waku protocols in a secure and efficient way.
+This includes DoS protection and resilience, as well as making sure that privacy and anonymity properties are not violated.
+
+### Restricted Run
+
+[*Restricted Run Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/153)
+
+Waku's [adaptive node](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/30/) concept allows nodes of (almost) any resource profile to participate in Waku networks.
+Nodes with more resources contribute the network, incentivized by various means addressed in the [protocol incentivization track](#protocol_incentivization).
+Nodes with restricted resources mainly consume services.
+
+The *restricted run* track researches and develops protocols and protocol extensions for resource restricted nodes.
+The restricted run track covers the need of restricted devices in areas covered by the other tracks (e.g. secure scaling, anonymity, discovery),
+and can be seen as orthogonal to these tracks.
+
+The complexity that makes protocols like [11/WAKU2-RELAY](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/11/)
+too resource intense for some nodes also provides (depending on the specific protocol)
+desirable privacy, anonymity, resilience, and latency properties.
+A special challenge in the restricted run track stems from compensating these trade-offs as well as possible.
+We aim to offer restricted nodes protocols that first and foremost allow network participation at all,
+but also have desirable properties beyond that.
+
+Examples for restricted run protocols are
+
+* [12/WAKU2-FILTER](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/12/)
+* [19/WAKU2-LIGHTPUSH](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/19/)
+* [34/WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/34/)
+
+*Restricted run* also covers the needs of restricted nodes beyond protocol design, e.g. NAT traversal.
+
+### Discovery
+
+[*Discovery Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/116)
+
+In order to build a P2P network,
+participating nodes first have to discover peers within this network.
+Ambient peer discovery allows nodes to find peers, making it an integral part of any decentralized application.
+Our [research log post on Ambient Peer Discovery](https://vac.dev/wakuv2-apd) gives more background on this research area.
+
+The *discovery* track aims to
+
+* improve our existing discovery methods in terms of privacy, anonymity, resilience, and network efficiency
+* research and design new discovery methods, as we want the best possible connectivity for Waku nodes
+
+### Application Protocols
+
+[*Application Protocols Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/165)
+
+### Privacy & Anonymity
+
+[*Anonymity Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/107)
+
+One of Waku's main design goals is being privacy and anonymity preserving.
+Waku v2 is modular and was designed with pluggable privacy/anonymity in mind.
+
+The *Anonymity* track analyses current Waku v2 protocols with respect to their privacy/anonymity guarantees,
+as well as plans to evaluate, specify, and implement new protocols that will enhance Waku v2 privacy/anonymity.
+
+Our [research log post on Waku Relay Anonymity](https://vac.dev/wakuv2-apd) provides more background.
+Adversarial models we consider are listed in [45/WAKU2-ADVERSARIAL-MODELS](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/45/).
+
+### Conversational Security
+
+[*Conversational Security Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/169)
+
+### RLN
+
+We plan to move the RLN track into a dedicated project: [rlnp2p.vac.dev](https://rlnp2p.vac.dev/)
+
+The *protocol incentivization* track uses results from *rlnp2p*.
+
+### Protocol Incentivization
+
+[*Protocol Incentivization Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/171)
+
+The *protocol incentivization* track covers research on incentives for nodes to offer specific services and/or resources.
+
+Part of this is research on service credentials.
+The goal is allowing service consumers to purchase *service credentials* (or tokens) that can be used to obtain services from Waku nodes.
+Service providers will be able to claim funds associated with received credentials.
+
+### Data Synchronization
+
+[*Data Synchronization Roadmap*](https://github.com/vacp2p/research/issues/170)
+
+The SeM *data synchronization* track covers research of secure and efficient asynchronous data synchronization between nodes.
+It complements live messaging via [11/WAKU2-RELAY](11/WAKU2-RELAY).
+
+### Censorship Resistance
+
+Future Work.