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Re:Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban by itake on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:16PM (#14790523)
Node 1 would be my laptop.

Node 2 would be the server.

Intermediary nodes would be the various routers, switches, and other networking devices that inspects the traffic between the two nodes.

so my own source supports my question. nodes do not need to be "humans"

Re:Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban by kakarot on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @12:47AM (#14794313)
Too bad that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, namely end-to-end communication between two individually-operated clients.