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In this context, the party which initiates the protocol is considered the client. Non-interactive means that the client does not need to recieve any information from the server, so the protocol can be used off-line.
A non-interactive protocol can of course also be used on-line and is therefore also considered an Interactive protocol. This is why the NoninterProtocol interfaces extend the InterProtocol interfaces.
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