Web MIXes: a system for anonymous and unobservable Internet access

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Berthold;Hannes Federrath;Stefan Köpsell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present the architecture, design issues and functions of a MIX-based system for anonymous and unobservable real-time Internet access. This system prevents traffic analysis as well as flooding attacks. The core technologies include an adaptive, anonymous, time/volume-sliced channel mechanism and a ticket-based authentication mechanism. The system also provides an interface to inform anonymous users about their level of anonymity and unobservability.