JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY

Own Certificates Panel

This panel contains your private Mix certificates. These certificates are used to sign information sent by your Mix. Without them, no one will trust your mix' messages and no one will be able to connect to your mix. To prove that you are trustworthy, you will also have to let an accepted certificate authority, like the JAP Team (jap@inf.tu-dresden.de), sign your certificates.

If you want to connect to other Mixes in a cascade, and other Mixes in the cascade should be able to connect to you, you will have to send your public certificates to those neighbour mixes. If you do this, please verify if the other mixes have received the right certificates by comparing your certificates' hash values with the hash values of the certificates your communication partners have received.

It is recommended to protect your private certificates with a password.

General Certificate Options

Import
This option allows you to import private certificates that contain both your private key for signing and the corresponding public key for verifying your signatures, or a public certificate that fits to your private one and may be signed by yourself or by a certificate authority, from a file. To import a public certificate (which contains your public key and some information about your Mix or organisation and the signer) you always need the corresponding private certificate.
Export
The export button is used to save either the public (.cer) oder both the private and the public part (.pfx) of a certificate. If you want to give a certificate to a certificate authority for signing or to another mix for building a connection, you always have to export the public certificate only. But remind this: NEVER give your private certificates away!
Remove
Deletes the certificate. Please make sure you either have a backup of the certificate of you really don't need it any more.
Create
Creates a new DSA certificate. You may enter a validity and a password. Please note that the validity might be changed by the signer of your certificate at his will. The creation process itself may take some seconds.
Change Password
Creates, deletes or changes the password as you like.

Mix Location and Own Mix Certificate

In the text fields, you should enter information about the location of your mix server. By creating the Mix certificate, you proof that this information is correct.

Operator and Operator Certificate

These fields contain information about the mix operator, that means you or your organisation. The operator certificate containing this information must be signed by a certificate authority to proof that it is correct. You can use your operator certificate for different Mixes, just export and import it into an other configuration.

Stable Version
00.10.003

Beta Version
00.10.020

Status of available AN.ON services and information about them.

Announcement: important update Within the next two weeks, we will release an important update for JAP/JonDo The update is essential, as changes in the payment protocol will otherwise lead to broken connections. Moreover, an error has been removed that may lead to broken connections or erroneous data transfers. We also added some important improvements regarding usability and stability of the program. (2008-05-09)

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