Design Principles

The following points form the basis for all design decisions made within the cryptic-net project.

The UX is aggressively optimized to eliminate manual intervention by users. All other concerns are secondary. The concept of "UX" extends beyond GUI interfaces, and encompasses all interactions of any sort with a cryptic-net process.
All resources within a cryptic-net are expected to be hosted on hardware owned by community members, for example home media servers or gaming rigs. Thus, a cryptic-net is fully autonomous.
Hardware resources are expected to be heterogenous and geographically dispersed.
It is expected that a single host might be a part of multiple, independent cryptic networks. These should not conflict with each other, nor share resources.