Agreement for Mix Operators

Version: 24. September 2003 (text file for signature)

This agreement aims at ensuring resp. increasing the trustworthiness of the anonymity service. To reach this goal, the operators have to take technical and organisational precautions for a high degree of privacy and security.

The signatory operates an anonymity host (in the following: mix). Together with other mixes, it forms a sequence called mix cascade. A cascade consists of a first mix, a last mix, and optionally several middle mixes. In particular, the nature of cascades implies that each mix has at most one predecessor-mix and one successor-mix. Mixes are connected, e.g., over the Internet.

Agreement of the Operator

With respect to the operation of the mix, the operator ensures the following: