JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY

General introduction to AN.ON Mix Servers

The AN.ON anonymity service is based on so called Mix cascades: A cascade consists of several consecutive single Mix servers (a first Mix, zero or more middle Mixes and a last Mix) and one terminating web-proxy. For a working Mix cascade at least two Mixes and the web-proxy are needed. Each Mix opens a port where users (in case of the first Mix) or the previous Mix (in case of a middle or last Mix) may connect to. The users send their web requests to the first Mix that passes them on to the next one and so on until they have reached the last mix and the web proxy, respective. The web response takes the same way back. As many users send messages at the same time, and as the packets are encrypted for each mix, no one, even the Mixes theirselves, know which user requests which information. Only if the operators of all Mixes work together, the interests of a user are identified. This provides a high level of anonymity.

The AN.ON network provides information about presently working Mix cascades, the number of connected users on a cascade and the amount of data they send. This is useful, as it gives the users the possibility to find active cacades to connect to and information about their relative anonymity. This information is distributed to the user clients by components called InfoService that collect the data from the Mixes and act as a distributed information database.

What is this document about?

What you're reading right now is about how to run an AN.ON Mix as an anonymity provider, in the following called Operator .

What this document is not about

It's explicitly not an introduction or documentation about how to use the AN.ON service just as a user or with a client, respective. If you're seeking just for how to use the client you're wrong here. For information about the client program called JAP, please refer to the Questions regarding JAP or to the JAP help section.

If you want to participate in the further development you're also wrong here. You find detailed information about all development topics on the AN.ON developer sites. There is also information about the General Coding Styles and theDevelopment Environment used in the AN.ON project.

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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