Right now I am working on developing a standalone application in C++ using libraries of cpp-ethereum, I was looking at the source code for cpp-ethereum and an idea stuck into my mind that wouldn't it be cool if we can use whisper protocol of cpp-ethereum for transferring actual data like actual file transfer? Can we do it?
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No. Of course it's possible what you suggesting, but no, because you have a major mixup in terminology.
For a peer 2 peer communication layer, have a look at devp2p. Here is the specification.
For actual data/file transfer have a look at swarm, the peer 2 peer file hosting protocol. (See also.)
Whisper is a peer 2 peer encrypted messanging protocol, currently pushed by status.im, the latest spec is here. As far as I know is only geth featuring a pretty current implementation, no idea about the C++ status.
In general, just a heads up, the C++ client is deprecated for production use. If you are interested in further developing against swarm or whisper, take a look into go-ethereum. Or contribute to cpp-ethereum.
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Well surely above answer made my vision clear about what I have to do but let us say I have to send only a little bit amount of data some Kbits or may be less than that and I want it to be transfer different than blockchain data. So from your point of view in this situation where does the whisper protocol stands? Oct 24, 2016 at 20:22
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Unfortunately, I'm not able to give you details about whisper other than the linked resources above. Not sure what the limits are.– q9fOct 25, 2016 at 6:52