CRFeb 10, 2014

Dining Cryptographers are Practical

arXiv:1402.2269v3
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This addresses the problem of secure and untraceable communication for users in scenarios requiring privacy, though it appears incremental as it builds on an existing protocol.

The authors tackled the impracticality of the dining cryptographers protocol due to disruption by malicious participants, and proposed an implementation that maintains information-theoretical security while enabling easy detection of disruptors with limited computational capabilities.

The dining cryptographers protocol provides information-theoretically secure sender and recipient untraceability. However, the protocol is considered to be impractical because a malicious participant may disrupt the communication. We propose an implementation which provides information-theoretical security for senders and recipients, and in which a disruptor with limited computational capabilities can easily be detected.

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