AP3: cooperative, decentralized anonymous communication

This paper describes a cooperative overlay network that provides anonymous communication services for participating users. The Anonymizing Peer-to-Peer Proxy (AP3) system provides clients with three primitives: (i) anonymous message delivery, (ii) anonymous channels, and (iii) secure pseudonyms. AP3 is designed to be lightweight, low-cost and provides “probable innocence” anonymity to participating users, even under a large-scale coordinated attack by a limited fraction of malicious overlay nodes. Additionally, we use AP3’s primitives to build novel anonymous group communication facilities (multicast and anycast), which shield the identity of both publishers and subscribers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SIGOPSE
• Authors: Alan Mislove, Gaurav Oberoi, Ansley Post, Charles Reis, Peter Druschel, Dan S. Wallach
• Keywords: Anonymous Communication Services, Anonymous Message Delivery, Cooperative Overlay Network, Operating Systems, SIGOPSE 2004