Title: A Practical Buses Protocol for Anonymous Network Communication

Author:  Andreas Hirt

Abstract: Anonymous network communication allows individuals to
communicate freely while concealing the identities of the sender,
receiver, or both from traffic analysis. Applications such as electronic
voting, electronic counselling, and military communications require
anonymity to renounce the fear of retribution from a third party. However,
previous analysis has shown that all the current anonymous communication
schemes are either vulnerable to pre-existing anonymity attacks or do not
scale well.  In this talk we introduce a significantly modified Buses
anonymous communication scheme that is both secure and scalable. A
prototype of the new protocol, Practical Buses Protocol, is implemented
and experimental results are presented.