Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 24 (2) , 84-90
- https://doi.org/10.1145/358549.358563
Abstract
A technique based on public key cryptography is presented that allows an electronic mail system to hide who a participant communicates with as well as the content of the communication - in spite of an unsecured underlying telecommunication system. The technique does not require a universally trusted authority. One correspondent can remain anonymous to a second, while allowing the second to respond via an untraceable return address.Keywords
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