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Message Delivery and the End-to-End Argument

6 questions · ~5 min · intermediate

Test your understanding of why WiFi and the internet provide no delivery guarantees, and how messaging apps build their own reliability on top. The article covers the end-to-end argument and the protocol details behind WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Messenger, and Instagram DMs.

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What does the end-to-end argument (Saltzer, Reed, and Clark, 1984) say about where reliability should be implemented?

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