Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design by Jaap-Henk Hoepman

Author:Jaap-Henk Hoepman [Hoepman, Jaap-Henk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: computers, Computer Science, internet, Online Safety & Privacy, Data Science, Data Modeling & Design
ISBN: 9780262045827
Google: 7GFBEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-10-05T00:26:04.127570+00:00

4.6    MIXING: HIDING IN THE CROWD

Given that every internet packet contains IP addresses linking sender and recipient, you might wonder: Is there any hope of achieving any form of unlinkability on the internet? In fact, there is. We will show how mixing internet traffic of many internet users provides anonymity by essentially allowing one to hide in the crowd of others that use the internet at the same time.30 Let’s start by looking at a very basic email-forwarding service, called the Finnish remailer, which provides a basic form of recipient anonymity.

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