The Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) is a
protocol suite
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developed by
Adobe Systems
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for encrypted, efficient
multimedia
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delivery through both
client-server and
peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network, forming a peer-to-peer network of Node ...
models over the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...
. The protocol was originally