[Epic] NomMix: A Peer-to-Peer Mix Network over Gossip Channel

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The NomMix protocol is build out of the following functionalities:

• Cryptographic Mix, is responsible for cryptographically transposing a message, which makes the input and output messages bitwise uncorrelated.
• Nomssip Protocol, is a variation of a gossip protocol, responsible for dissemination of mix message in the network and enables the following functionalities:
  • Temporal Mix, is responsible for hiding timing correlation between incoming and outcoming messages from a node.
  • Connection Constant Transmission Rate (CCTR), is responsible for generating messages at defined rate on each connection of a node, a dummy messages are generated where no messages real message are to be sent.
• Broadcast Protocol, is responsible for dissemination of final message in the network.

An honest node in the network provides all of the above functionalities.