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**Project Description:** ActivityPub is the W3C standard for distributed social networking. In this project, we will investigate opportunities for extending the standard’s direct messaging mechanism with end-to-end encryption (E2EE). As deliverables, we will propose the protocol as the basis of a new report of the Social Web Community Group at the W3C, and provide a working prototype of the protocol.