SPHINX – Standards for Private High Quality Internet Networks.

Website

https://blog.nymtech.net/sphinx-tl-dr-the-data-packet-that-can-anonymize-bitcoin-and-the-internet-18d152c6e4dc

The Sphinx packet format provides an essential potentially standardized component for privacy-enhanced networking, SPHINX will tackle these problems by producing test-suites, open-source code, and standards-ready specifications to make a privacy-enhanced and GDPR compatible internet ready for any European - and beyond! - internet application, including even web browsers.

ProjectID

NGI-POINTER-PROJECT-26

Acronym

POINTER-ARCH26

Additional Info

https://nymtech.net/docs/0.11.0/overview/index/, https://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/Sphinx_Oakland09.pdf

Enduser Relevance

Companies, Developers, associations and individuals

Contact

harry@nymtech.net

Endorsements

Not available yet

Disclaimer

We prove the full cryptographic security of Sphinx in the random oracle model, and we describe how it can be used as an efficient drop-in replacement in deployed remailer systems.

Country: Switzerland

NGI Project: NGI pointer

Status: Tested and internet-scalable solution

Category: Network infrastructure (including routing, peer-to-peer and virtual private networking)