Amicima

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Amicima, Inc. is a software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, United States, developing new network protocols for client-server and peer-to-peer communication over the Internet and applications using the new protocols. Amicima was recently purchased by Adobe.

[edit] Protocols

Amicima's base transport-layer protocol is the Secure Media Flow Protocol (MFP).

Amicima has made implementations of both MFP and the companion MFPNet peer-to-peer layer available for download as GPL-licensed open-source software libraries.

[edit] Applications

Amicima has released amiciPhone, a Skype-like application for voice over IP, instant messaging, user presence, and file transfer (including photo sharing), as a demonstration of the MFP and MFPNet protocol technology.

According to the Amicima website, other third party developers are working on applications using the Amicima protocol libraries.

Amicima applications use a Diffie-Hellman key agreement mode for perfect forward secrecy and AES 256 for encryption.