8 8 <p><font color="#ff0000">Currently this page is being edited.</font></p>
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10 10 <h1>Architecture </h1>
11 11
12 12 <p>The details are described at the <a href="https://zeronet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">upstream
13 13 documentation</a>, which has a
14 14 <a href="http://127.0.0.1:43110/1Docsfk5uLvuXkL4U13eYDxCm2gzi1fNQq/">mirror
15 -zite</a><i>("zite" stands for "ZeroNet site"),</i> but </p>
15 +zite</a><i>(a <b>"zite"</b> stands for "ZeroNet site"),</i> but the
16 +general idea is that there is a ZeroNet specific document format, each
17 +document, also called as a zite, is a folder with a "standardized" layout and
18 +some other requirements, and as people surf the ZeroNet, the documents/zites
19 +are downloaded by using the BitTorrent protocol and stored locally, at a local
20 +server. The locally stored copies are used for local viewing and for serving to
21 +others by using the BitTorrent protocol. The documents/zites are signed by
22 +using public key cryptography and they can be "edited" by signing and
23 +publishing a new version of the zite. Some of the documents are collectively
24 +editable and that functionality allows the creation of forums<i>("ZeroTalk")</i>
25 +and mail exchange portals<i>("ZeroMail")</i>.</p>
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17 27 <p><br>
18 28 </p>