Title
pMIX: Untraceability for Small Hiding Groups.
Abstract
MIXes are routers that accept packets until their buffers are full, and then send them to the recipients hiding the link (usually through reencryption and rearrangement) between incoming and outgoing packets. MIXes and their variants are used today to provide untraceable communication with systems such as TOR 1, and they have been a major issue of research on privacy protection for more than twenty years. One of the major problems presented by a MIX is that its administrator is able to link the incoming and outgoing messages transiting through it, and this is the reason why MIXes are almost always organized in networks, according to the model presented by David Chaum in [2]. In this paper, we present a protocol that combines these two fields of research, allowing us to create MIXes that have the remarkable property of being unable to link the incoming and outgoing packets transiting through them. This brings the possibility for its users to be untraceable while most of the data of their communication are sent through a single MIX, improving the performance and versatility of anonymizing systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/NCA.2005.40
NCA
Keywords
Field
DocType
cryptography,data privacy,routing protocols,MIX protocol,MIX router,data hiding,message transition,untraceable communication
Cryptography,Computer security,Computer science,Information hiding,Network packet,Computer network,Information privacy,Routing protocol
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2326-9
3
0.39
References 
Authors
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Aguilar Melchor126620.27
Yves Deswarte21142156.24