On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:52:19AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/ > https://github.com/katzenpost/ > > Katzenpost > “An especially problematic excision of the political is the > marginalization within the cryptographic community of the > secure-messaging problem, an instance of which was the problem > addressed by David Chaum. Secure-messaging is the most fundamental > privacy problem in cryptography: how can parties communicate in such a > way that nobody knows who said what. More than a decade after the > problem was introduced, Rackoff and Simon would comment on the > near-absence of attention being paid to the it.” (Phillip Rogaway, The > Moral Character of Cryptographic Work) > > Goals > to prevent a sufficiently global passive adversary from learning > who is communicating with whom > to detect active attacks against the network infrastructure > hide message content from participating providers, hide recipient > identity from the sender’s provider, and the sender identity from the > recipient’s provider > reliable out of order delivery > support for various “message based” use cases like ‘instant > messaging’, ‘e-mail’, and ‘crypto currency’ anonymization
That's a sufficient summary. +1
