Anonymous Trust-Network Messaging via Fragmented Proxy Relay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication technologies lack the ability to enable anonymous, secure, and low-latency point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint information exchange within trust networks without relying on a trusted third party, while ensuring that only network members can access the information and preventing interception or modification by third parties.
Innovation Solution
A network architecture utilizing an anonymization overlay network, a trust network of partners, and independent proxies to fragment and recombine data packets, ensuring only members of the trust network can reconstruct the information, with additional mechanisms to prevent interception and modification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a trusted third party is used to manage anonymous communication, then security and access control are improved, but anonymity and trust requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the trusted third party functionality into distributed components: each network member runs local validation logic and the consensus mechanism divides trust verification across multiple nodes. This eliminates the need for a single centralized trusted entity while maintaining security through distributed validation of member credentials and permissions.
Solution Approach 2:
The consensus mechanism acts as an intermediary layer between members, enabling anonymous communication without requiring direct trust between participants. The consensus protocol mediates access control and validation, allowing members to verify permissions through cryptographic proofs rather than personal trust relationships.
2Ease of operation
If point-to-point anonymous communication is implemented, then anonymity is improved, but communication versatility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal anonymous communication framework that supports multiple communication patterns (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, multipoint-to-multipoint) through a single protocol. The consensus mechanism and credential verification system provide a foundation that enables various communication modes without requiring separate specialized systems for each pattern.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts communication patterns based on member credentials and permissions verified through the consensus mechanism. Members can switch between different communication modes as needed, with the system adjusting access control and routing in real-time based on verified identities and permissions rather than requiring static communication patterns.
3Productivity
If information is transmitted to multiple destinations, then information dissemination is improved, but access control difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The consensus mechanism provides continuous feedback on member credentials, permissions, and communication history. This feedback enables the system to automatically enforce access control policies for multipoint communications by verifying member eligibility in real-time, allowing rapid information dissemination to authorized groups while maintaining granular access control through cryptographic validation.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device and a method for the anonymous transmission of information, the transmission being a point-to-multipoint communication or a multipoint-to-multipoint communication between members of a given trusted network, a trusted network being predefined by a plurality of members and a plurality of independent proxies, the communication within a trusted network taking place on an anonymising network platform masking the IP addresses of the members of the trusted network, the method being implemented by computer and comprising steps consisting in: generating, by a member of a trusted network comprising N' members and N proxies, a plurality N of complementary data fragments, from an initial data packet, such that recombining the N complementary fragments allows the initial data packet to be reconstructed; transmitting, by the sending member, via the anonymising network platform, each generated complementary fragment respectively to an independent proxy of the N proxies; retransmitting, by each independent proxy via the anonymising network platform, the complementary fragment received from the sending member, to the plurality N' of members of the trusted network; and recombining, by each receiving member of the trusted network, the plurality N of received complementary fragments in order to reconstruct the initial data packet.