Practical Anonymity for the Masses with Mix-Networks

  • Authors:
  • Marc Rennhard;Bernhard Plattner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Designing mix-networks for low-latency applicationsthat offer acceptable performance and provide good resistanceagainst attacks without introducing too much over-headis very difficult. Good performance and small over-headsare vital to attract users and to be able to supportmany of them, because with only a few users, there is noanonymity at all. In this paper, we analyze how well differentkinds of mix-networks are suited to provide practicalanonymity for a very large number of users.