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Mixminion is a communication security application for electronic mail
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messages. Its purpose is to deny an adversary the ability to
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determine who is communicating with whom and to provide the closely
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related service of anonymous communication.
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It does this by sending messages through a series of servers.
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Messages going into and out of each server are encrypted. Each server
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keeps a pool of messages. When a message comes in it is placed in the
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pool. Messages sent out from the pool are difficult to correlate with
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the messages going in. This process is called "mixing."
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Each server reduces the ability of the adversary to determine the
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origin of a message. Chaining the servers further reduces this
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ability and contains the damage caused by compromised servers. The
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chain of servers is chosen by the Mixminion software running on the
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user's machine.
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See http://mixminion.net for a complete description.
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