Mixmaster is a Type II 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 History
• 2 See also
• 3 Further reading
• 4 External links
• 5 Source

History

Mixmaster was originally written by Lance Cottrell, and was maintained by Len Sassaman. is the current maintainer. Current Mixmaster software can be compiled to handle Cypherpunk messages as well; they are needed as reply blocks for .

See Also on BitcoinWiki

• Anonymity
  • Anonymous P2P
  • • Cypherpunk anonymous remailer (Type I)
    • Mixminion (Type III)
  • Onion routing
  • Pseudonymous remailer (a.k.a. nym servers)
    • Penet remailer

Further reading

• Email Security, Bruce Schneier ()
• Computer Privacy Handbook, Andre Bacard ()

External links

• Mixmaster homepage
• Official Mixmaster Remailer FAQ
• Remailer FAQ
• Remailer Vulnerabilities
• A/I: PARANOIA REMAILER HOWTO
• Feraga.com: Howto use a Type II Anonymous Remailer (link not active 12 May 2010)

Source

http://wikipedia.org/