Mix networks were first proposed by Chaum (1981) as a technique for enabling anonymous email. The idea was first implemented in the 1990s in the cypherpunk remailers, of which Mixmaster was the most prominent example. Research in mix networks slowly advanced in the 2000s with an academic focu...
In 1981, Chaum [3] published a beautifully simple and elegant method to protect the identities of communicating parties: “mix networks.” The basic functionality of a mix network is to...
Mix-networks were first proposed by Chaum in the late 1970s鈥揺arly 1980s as a general tool for building anonymous communication systems. Classical mix-net implementations rely on standard public key primitives (e.g., ElGamal encryption) that will become vulnerable when a sufficiently powerful ...
A worked example of a net-work is also presented to illustrate how these results can be applied tocreate secure mix networks in practise.Keywords: mix networks, mix cascades, traffic analysis, anonymity.1IntroductionMix networks were introduced by Chaum [4] as a technique to provide anony-mous...
We present an overview of the field of anonymous communications by Mix Cascades (Mix) since its establishment in 1981 by David Chaum till today. Mix Cascades provide anonymity services by using cryptography and permutations in multi stage systems like electronic voting. The scope of various possible...
Chaum's mix method (Comms. of the ACM, vol.24(2), p.84-88, 1981) can effectively thwart an adversary's attempt at tracing packet routes and can hide the source and/or destination of packets. However, applying the mix method in ad hoc networks may cause significant performance ...
Mix-networks with restricted routes. In Roger Dingledine, editor, Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop (PET 2003), pages 1-17. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2760, March 2003.George Danezis. Mix-networks with restricted routes. In Roger Dingledine, editor, Proceedings of Privacy ...
In this work, a Chaum mix inspired, smartphone based network that uses the Short Message Service (SMS) is proposed. This system leverages both techniques used by current anonymity networks as well as knowledge gained from current and past research to make messages private and untraceable. ...
In this work, a Chaum mix inspired, smartphone based network that uses the Short Message Service (SMS) is proposed. This system leverages both techniques used by current anonymity networks as well as knowledge gained from current and past research to make messages private and untraceable. ...
4 Mix-Networks A mix-net is a network of mix-servers [14] that allows to shuffle ciphertexts so that all the input ciphertexts are in the output set, but cannot be linked together. Whereas it is easy for a server to apply a random permutation on ciphertexts and randomize them, it is ...