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+BSP is an application layer data synchronisation protocol for delay-tolerant networks. It can operate over any transport that can deliver a stream of bytes from a sender to a recipient on a best-effort basis. BSP does not ensure the confidentiality, authenticity or integrity of the transported data; this is the responsibility of a transport layer security protocol such as [BTP].
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