IOTA Streams Goes Live In The First (Alpha) Version

The IOTA Streams have been expected by many network users for some time now. As the company announced yesterday, the release of the Alpha version is now live for testing. Previously, this technology was called MAM (Masked Authenticated Messaging) but the IOTA Foundation decided to give it a clearer name so that users immediately know what function this application can perform.

This is how MAM became IOTA Streams. Anyways, if you are following our cryptocurrency news, you would know that this is an encryption scheme for trinary messages that allows both authenticity and confidentiality on an original implementation and specification of apmi.bsu.by. In that manner, by using IOTA streams the messages sent can be encrypted via NTRU (Public Key Encryption) as well as PSK (Pre-Shared Key).

In simple layman’s terms, this is a second layer data transmission protocol which enables data streams. These streams are then transmitted between sensors and other devices – all in order to be encrypted appropriately and stored on the tangle in a way that cannot be manipulated.

The consensus protocol used by IOTA additionally allows some integrity to the message and data streams. These features are specifically important in industries where privacy, immutability and integrity are all important.

The alpha version of IOTA Streams brings some significant changes. Until now, the authors could only send, receive and sign messages. Now, they can also publish unsigned messages. Furthermore, the features show improved access control of the messages and more intelligent arranging of it within the network:

“In MAM v0, the message format was fixed, and if your use case required different message structures, you needed multiple channels for each structure. For example, you may have different message types for monitoring messages and alert messages. In IOTA Streams, you can publish both in the same channel, and applications that read the messages will distinguish them based on their specific headers,” is the update shared in the IOTA news.

In MAM v0, all messages have existed independently of each other. In IOTA Streams, they can be linked together and additional information can be attached. Furthermore, older messages in a channel can be changed, and applications can retrieve only the newest valid message to guarantee the integrity.