Mixminion is the reference implementation of the Type III Anonymous Remailer protocol.
The Design Document gives our justifications and security analysis for the Mixminion design:
The Specification aims to give developers enough information to build a compatible version of Mixminion:
Read these papers (especially the ones in boxes) to get up to speed on remailer design and anonymous communication in general.
The mixminion-dev mailing list is where a lot of the discussion happens. Please look at its archives and consider subscribing. There's also a list for cvs commits.
And you can browse the Mixminion CVS repository:
You can see current network reliability/uptime stats here and here. We've got quite a few nodes already!
July 23, 2003 23:12 EST
Back in February, Nick gave a presentation on Mixminion at Codecon 2003. The audio is now back online; you can again download an MP3 of Nick's presentation.
June 12, 2003 00:43 EST
Mixminion 0.0.4 is, at last, available. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
June 10, 2003 10:41 EST
Mixminion 0.0.4rc4 is available for testing! In this release are numerous critical bugfixes and cosmetic improvements identified over the last week of testing. There are no more pending items for the 0.0.4 release. Unless somebody finds a showstopper bug by Thursday, I'll just update the version number and call this release 0.0.4. As ever, you can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
June 6, 2003 04:48 EST
Mixminion 0.0.4rc3 is available for testing! In this release are numerous critical bugfixes and cosmetic improvements identified over the last week of testing. There are no more pending items for the 0.0.4 release. Unless somebody finds a showstopper bug by Monday, I'll just update the version number and call this release 0.0.4. As ever, you can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
May 30, 2003 03:37 EST
Mixminion 0.0.4rc2 is available for testing! Thanks to three hours experience of testing Mixminion 0.0.4rc1, we finally tracked down a critical bug that's been crashing people's servers since 0.0.3. It's better now. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
May 30, 2003 00:04 EST
Mixminion 0.0.4rc1 is avaialable for testing! Directories are more automated, servers are more stable, key rotation is in, keys are longer, MMTP is better, key generation is automatic, server statistics are started, and the code is generally cleaner. This release breaks backward compatibility; everyone should upgrade and look for bugs before the real release is out. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
February 20, 2003 13:32 EST
Mixminion 0.0.3 is finally out! You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
February 17, 2003 11:31 EST
The second release candidate for Mixminion 0.0.3 is available. Everyone should upgrade and look for bugs before the real release is out. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
February 13, 2003 06:47 EST
The first release candidate for Mixminion 0.0.3 is available. Reply blocks and client side pooling are implemented. This release breaks backward compatibility; everyone should upgrade and look for bugs before the real release is out. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
January 10, 2003 17:02 EST
There's another bugfix release in the 0.0.2 series: Mixminion 0.0.2.2. If you are running a server, you'll want to upgrade. If not, this version changes nothing for you. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
January 7, 2003 23:18 EST
Released a bugfix patch as mixminion version 0.0.2.1. If you are running a server, you will want to upgrade. You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
January 7, 2003 00:43 EST
Mixminion version 0.0.2 is available for bigger fun and tougher testing! You can download the code or read the release notes. {Signature}
December 16, 2002
Mixminion version 0.0.1 is available for fun and testing! You can download the code , or read the release notes.