Katzenpost Team
Katzenpost descends from a long line of mix network research, beginning with David Chaum's 1979 paper and developing through Mixmaster, Mixminion, and Loopix. We are an international team of researchers and developers building a hybrid post-quantum mix network in that tradition.
John Brown
Researcher & Developer
Contributors
- Brett Preston, Audio Engineer; author of Audio Engineering Considerations for a Modern Mixnet (PDF).
Advice
The individuals below offered counsel at various points in the project. Their inclusion here is gratitude for valuable advice. It is not an endorsement of the design as currently deployed.
- Nick Mathewson
- Trevor Perrin
- Bertram Poettering, co-author of KEM Combiners (Giacon, Heuer, Poettering, PKC 2018).
- Peter Schwabe
Past Contributors
- yippyskippy, contributed to the website.
Panoramix Project (2015–2019)
Katzenpost began in 2017 as one effort within the Panoramix Project, an EU Commission grant on mix networking that ran from 2015 to 2019. The contributors below shaped that earlier phase of the work; some remain active in other mix networks.
Development
In memory of
Two figures whose work shaped the field within which Katzenpost is built:
- Andreas Pfitzmann, who formalised much of the terminology of anonymity and pioneered the use of dummy traffic in mix networks.
- Len Sassaman, co-author of Mixminion and a tireless advocate for anonymous communication.
Patches and discussion are welcome. Our repositories live at github.com/katzenpost; for chat, see our community page.