Katzenpost: Traffic analysis resistant messaging

[zen at freedbms.net (Zenaan Harkness)]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:52:19AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/
> https://github.com/katzenpost/
> 
> Katzenpost
> â??An especially problematic excision of the political is the
> marginalization within the cryptographic community of the
> secure-messaging problem, an instance of which was the problem
> addressed by David Chaum. Secure-messaging is the most fundamental
> privacy problem in cryptography: how can parties communicate in such a
> way that nobody knows who said what. More than a decade after the
> problem was introduced, Rackoff and Simon would comment on the
> near-absence of attention being paid to the it.â?? (Phillip Rogaway, The
> Moral Character of Cryptographic Work)
> 
> Goals
>     to prevent a sufficiently global passive adversary from learning
> who is communicating with whom
>     to detect active attacks against the network infrastructure
>     hide message content from participating providers, hide recipient
> identity from the senderâ??s provider, and the sender identity from the
> recipientâ??s provider
>     reliable out of order delivery
>     support for various â??message basedâ?? use cases like â??instant
> messagingâ??, â??e-mailâ??, and â??crypto currencyâ?? anonymization

That's a sufficient summary. +1