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-
-Issues we know about but have not resolved yet:
-
-Generate/send session key, sign TCP parameters. This will prevent a
-filtering proxy and prevent us from making many connections to the same
-node.
-
-We need a maximum message size.
-
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+Dependancies:
+- boost 1.47
+- Google protocol buffers 2.4.1
+- openssl
+- mysql
+- websocketpp