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Katzenpost Integration with 0KN

Besides offering a cutting-edge mix-net architecture with working implementation, integration of Katzenpost within 0KN's decentralized mix-net substrate offers a multitude of benefits.

Mix-Net Science​

The Katzenpost project and team demonstrates superb domain expertise through excellent protocol specifications with developed terminology making mix-net development and general understanding more accessible. The threat models for the katzenpost mix network transport protocol and additional protocol layers are clearly described with references.

Katzenpost's Mixnet Academy Syllabus & Reading List provides organized resources to accelerate the journey of a mix-net ninja with topics including:

  • Mix Network Fundamentals
  • Mix Strategies
  • Mix Network Topology
  • Compulsion Attacks And Packet Format
  • Statistical Disclosure Attacks and Decoy Traffic
  • Epistemic Attacks
  • Modern Mix Network Designs
  • Classical Packet Switching Network Literature
  • Attacks on Congestion Control

Evolution-Ready Modularity​

Katzenpost is more than a mix network; it's a mix network framework and open source project dedicated to researching and developing mix networks. It includes a modular architecture and a plugin system supportive of protocol evolutions, reusable components in different mix-net designs, and clear partition capabilities for integration within 0KN's decentralized privacy mechanism.

Katzenpost and 0KN have shared ethos and developmental synthesis to push the evolution of mix networks into more accessible user space. Additional privacy features are enabled to protect metadata as well as transactions within the decentralized mix-net incentive system, and app stack. Users and providers of the mix-net may have unprecedented security of private communications within the network substrate that includes on- and off- ramps (i.e. usage of mix, without revealing PII).