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 ## sendafriend
 
-quickly send files between machines by piping them on the command line, with bidirectional authentication and metadata resistance via tor (built on cwtch)
+quickly send files or control signals between machines by piping them on the command line, with bidirectional authentication and metadata resistance via tor (built on cwtch)
 
-includes a way to quickly exchange onion addresses using a low-entropy shared secret (using pairwise socialist millionaires' protocol on a bbs)
+includes a way to quickly exchange onion addresses using a low-entropy shared secret (using pairwise socialist millionaires' protocol on a bbs) and a contact manager
 
-note that we only support files up to 64k right now, sorry :(  (a fix for this is in the works)
+note that we only support data up to 64k right now, sorry :(  (a fix for this is in the works)
 
 ## installation