Security and Design Issues of Regroup-And-Go MIX

Jinqiao SHI; Binxing FANG

ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium

Research Article

Security and Design Issues of Regroup-And-Go MIX

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    author={Jinqiao SHI and Binxing FANG},
    title={Security and Design Issues of Regroup-And-Go MIX},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-NIS},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685179}
}

Jinqiao SHI
Binxing FANG
Year: 2008
Security and Design Issues of Regroup-And-Go MIX
CHINACOM2008-NIS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685179

Jinqiao SHI¹^,*, Binxing FANG¹^,*

1: Research Center of Information Intelligence and Information Security Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences

*Contact email: shijinqiao@software.ict.ac.cn, bxfang@ict.ac.cn

Abstract

N − 1) attack is one of the most powerful active attacks against mix, which is the basic building block of many modern anonymous systems. RG mix is an effective scheme to protect against (n − 1) attack. However it has some security and design weaknesses. This paper investigates these problems and gives solutions. Information dispersal algorithm is imported to prevent the security and robustness vulnerabilities. An addon heartbeat traffic policy and a multi-way routing scheme are proposed to improve the security of RG mix under low traffic levels. Also, an extensible return path scheme is proposed to support bi-directional anonymous communication in RG mix network. Analysis shows that these solutions can improve the security and robustness of RG mix.

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685179