The effectiveness of mixnets – an empirical study
Nazmul Islam, Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam, Ashiqur Rahman · Computer Fraud & Security · 2013
A mixnet is a multi-stage system that accepts encrypted messages as its input and generates a new altered output while exploiting cryptographic operations and repeated permutations to ensure the untraceability between the input and the output messages. Based on the employed cryptographic operations, the main types of mixnets and their variants are: decryption, re-encryption, universal re-encryption and hybrid mixnets. Mixnets offer a degree of anonymity on the Internet by making communications untraceable. Nazmul Islam, Kazi Md Rokibul Alam and Ashiqur Rahman of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh explain the various kinds of mixnet commonly deployed, and carry out tests to see how they perform. Using the experimental data, they compare the various types to see which offers the best results..