Panel discussion - Mix cascades versus Peer-to-Peer: Is one concept superior?
Claudia Díaz, George Danezis, Christian Grothoff, Andreas Pfitzmann, Paul F. Syverson · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2005
David Chaum's initial work on Mixes led to a vast number of proposals how to provide anonymous communication on the Internet. They all have in common, that a multiple of Mixes are used to establish a certain amount of anonymity. On the one end, we have Mix cascades: dedicated servers joining traffic from a large set of users and uniformaly redirecting it on a predefined route. The other end is defined by Peer-to-Peer systems: widely distributed and equal client applications unpredictably routing their traffic over all possible routes.