Anonymous Communication with On-line and Off-line Onion Encoding

Abstract. Anonymous communication with onions requires that a user application determines the whole routing path of an onion. This scenario has certain disadvantages, it might be dangerous in some situations, and it does not fit well to the current layered architecture of dynamic communication networks. We show that applying encoding based on universal re-encryption can solve many of these problems by providing much flexibility – the onions can be created onthe-fly or in advance by different parties.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SOFSEM
• Authors: Marek Klonowski, Miroslaw Kutylowski, Filip Zagórski
• Keywords: Anonymous Communication, Current Layered Architecture, Dynamic Communication Networks, SOFSEM 2005, Theoretical Computer Science