Crowds: Anonymity for web transactions. Reiter, M. K. and Rubin, A. D. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 1:66\textendash92, 1998.
Paper abstract bibtex Crowds is a system that allows anonymous web-surfing. For each host, a random static path through the crowd is formed that then acts as a sequence of proxies, indirecting replies and responses. Vulnerable when facing adversaries that can perform traffic analysis at the local node and without responder anonymity. But highly scalable and efficient.
@article {Reiter98crowds:anonymity,
title = {Crowds: Anonymity for web transactions},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Information and System Security},
volume = {1},
year = {1998},
pages = {66{\textendash}92},
abstract = {Crowds is a system that allows anonymous web-surfing. For each host, a random static path through the crowd is formed that then acts as a sequence of proxies, indirecting replies and responses. Vulnerable when facing adversaries that can perform traffic analysis at the local node and without responder anonymity. But highly scalable and efficient.},
keywords = {anonymous web browsing, Crowds},
url = {http://avirubin.com/crowds.pdf},
author = {Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin}
}