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Jan Klass 37aa66b19b DOCS(dev): Improve wording and formatting of network protocol docs 
Drop the 'unreliable' label from UDP. Delivery is not guaranteed, but delivery reliability largely depends on network context. Unreliable makes it sound more negative and error-prone than it is. We use UDP because and with the understanding that in most cases it is quite reliable, or reliable enough, rather than simply being unreliable. The point is that we use it for low-latency. Everything else is technical reasoning.

Prefer short statement sentences over long comma sentences.

'an TLSv1 encrypted connection' -> 'a TLSv1 encrypted connection'

Format message type name as inline code to indicate it being a "type" name.
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Overview

Mumble is based on a standard server-client communication model. It utilizes two channels of communication, the first one is a TCP connection which is used to reliably transfer control data between the client and the server. The second one is a UDP connection which is used for low latency transfer of voice data.

Mumble system overview

Both are protected by strong cryptography. This encryption is mandatory and cannot be disabled. The TCP control channel uses TLSv1 AES256-SHA1 while the voice channel is encrypted with OCB-AES1282.

Mumble crypt types

While the TCP connection is mandatory the UDP connection can be compensated by tunnelling the UDP packets through the TCP connection as described in the protocol description later.