mixnets

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...