Mixmaster is a Type II anonymous remailer which sends messages in fixed-size packets and reorders them, preventing anyone watching the messages go in and out of remailers from tracing them. It is an implementation of a Chaumian Mix network.[1]
Original author(s) | Lance Cottrell |
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Developer(s) | Len Sassaman and Peter Palfrader |
Stable release | 3.0
/ March 3, 2008 |
Type | Anonymous remailer |
Website | http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/ |
History edit
Mixmaster was originally written by Lance Cottrell, and was maintained by Len Sassaman. Peter Palfrader is the current maintainer. Current Mixmaster software can be compiled to handle Cypherpunk messages as well; they are needed as reply blocks for nym servers.
See also edit
- Anonymity
- Anonymous P2P
- Anonymous remailer
- Cypherpunk anonymous remailer (Type I)
- Mixminion (Type III)
- Onion routing
- Pseudonymous remailer (a.k.a. nym servers)
- Data privacy
- Traffic analysis
References edit
- ^ "Mixmaster man page". SourceForge. January 14, 2008. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
Further reading edit
- Email Security, Bruce Schneier (ISBN 0-471-05318-X)
- Computer Privacy Handbook, Andre Bacard (ISBN 1-56609-171-3)