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Using A Reply Path And Handshaking Protocol To Allow For Incentives With Mix-Net Servers, Timothy J. Atkinson, Marius C. Silaghi

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Sending a message to a destination anonymously so that the destination cannot figure out who the originator was, and ensuring that the message reaches the destination untampered with, can be a difficult problem. Chaum's mix-net solves this problem but offers little motivation for a person to set up a mix-net server. This paper discusses a method that not only allows monetary payments as an incentive to create a public mix-net server, but also provides some fraud detection at the time a message is being sent. Also compared with other methods, the method described here can be considered reasonable from the …