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mixnet

mixnet noun: a server or group of servers facilitating private communication between individuals by randomly scrambling the order that messages are received, so that an adversary is unable to determine the source or destination of any message.

Noun

mixnet (plural mixnets)

  1. A server or group of servers facilitating private communication between individuals by randomly scrambling the order that messages are received, so that an adversary is unable to determine the source or destination of any message.
    • One type of mix network accepts as input a collection of ciphertexts, and outputs the corresponding plaintexts in a randomly permuted order. The main privacy property desired of such a mixnet is that the permutation matching inputs to outputs should be known only to the mixnet, and no one else. In...2004, Philippe Golle, Markus Jakobsson, Ari Juels, Paul Syverson, “Universal Re-encryption for Mixnets”, in Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2964), Berlin...
    • Each server in the mixnet removes only one layer of encryption, so that only the last server knows a message's ultimate destination.2016 July 11, Larry Hardesty, Phys.org, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2023

Forms of mixnet

pluralmixnets

Origin of mixnet

Compound of mix + net.

Questions about mixnet

What does mixnet mean?
Mixnet means a server or group of servers facilitating private communication between individuals by randomly scrambling the order that messages are received, so that an adversary is unable to determine the source or destination of any message.
What part of speech is mixnet?
Mixnet is a noun.
What is the plural of mixnet?
The plural of mixnet is mixnets.

Words near mixnet in the dictionary

  1. mixmasters
  2. mixmatch
  3. mixmatches
  4. mixmer
  5. mixmers
  6. mixnet
  7. mixnets
  8. mixo-
  9. mixo-barbaric
  10. mixobarbaric
  11. mixodectid

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