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cryptographically-provable anonymity
- To: Steve Kinney <[email protected]>
- Subject: cryptographically-provable anonymity
- From: [email protected] (J.M. Porup)
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 09:55:16 -0400
- Cc: [email protected]
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 08:25:49PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
> Since nobody asked, here's a description of why neither TOR nor any
> other existing or presently planned anonymizing protocol I know of can
> be relied on to conceal a user's identity from the Five Eyes or any of
> several other hostile actors.
I wrote about the Dissent Project last year:
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dissent-a-new-type-of-security-tool-could-markedly-improve-online-anonymity
project home page:
http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/
Serious project, led by Bryan Ford at EPFL. Roger Dingledine said nice
things about it.
Project seems to lack momentum, but could offer cryptographically-
provable anonymity guarantees, as long as real-time comms is not the
use case.
jmp