A Brief Introduction to mix networks.
Channel: David Stainton
Date: 20/01/2019

This is a brief introduction mix networks which are a kind of anonymity network that can help people communicate more freely by reducing the amount of leaked metadata. Encryption is NOT sufficient to protect against leaking metadata.

If you are curious to learn more about mix networks, checkout this mixnet intro blog post I wrote: https://leastauthority.com/blog/mixnet-intro/

The Katzenpost free software project researches and develops mix networks:
https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/
https://github.com/katzenpost

This video makes references to several papers:

"The Moral Character of Cryptographic Works" by Phillip Rogaway
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf

"Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms."
by David Chaum
https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/chaum-mix.pdf

"Generalising Mixes" by by Claudia Diaz and Andrei Serjantov.
https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/diaz:pet2003.ps.gz

"Stop-and-Go MIXes: Providing Probabilistic Anonymity in an Open System"
by by Dogan Kesdogan, Jan Egner, and Roland Büschkes.
https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/stop-and-go.pdf