Anonym-O-Meter

Feedback about the protection level

The register card Anonym-o-meter informs you about the about the current protection level. This includes:

From this information, a partly subjective risk of observation and protection level can be derived. The more users are active and send or receive messages, the larger is the anonymity group. Every single message sent to the web is anonymous within this anonymity group. Assuming that the attacker controls a certain number of users or simulates apparent users, his difficulties with controlling all users but one increase with the growth of the anonymity group.

In future versions, the protection will be increased by a new registration procedure. The users register at the mixes by so-called tickets, i.e. digital permissions given to pseudonyms by use of so-called blind digital signatures.

Service-related Traffic

For the user's information and as an evidence of working correctly, JAP shows how many data in the current session has been transferred via the anonymizing service and how many channels have currently been used. In general, several channels are being set up, even if you use only one application and open only one web page, because the webpages may contain multiple embedded objects that are opened one by one by the browser.