The Pynchon Gate: A Private Information Retrieval-based Pseudonym Service


The following are a list of documents related to the nym server system, The Pynchon Gate.
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The original Pynchon Gate design paper:
The Pynchon Gate. Len Sassaman, Bram Cohen, and Nick Mathewson. 2005. (Bibtex)

An denial of service attack on the Pynchon Gate:
The Byzantine Postman Problem. Len Sassaman and Bart Preneel. 2007. (Bibtex)

A theoretical solution to the problem above:
Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval. Ian Goldberg. 2007. (Bibtex)

An alternative (and more practical and secure) solution that requires minimal change to the original Pynchon Gate PIR protocol:
Solving the Byzantine Postman Problem. Len Sassaman and Bart Preneel. 2007. (Bibtex)


Pynchon Gate Protocol Draft Specification. Nick Mathewson, Len Sassaman, and Brian Warner. 2004-XXXX. (Bibtex)


A blog post response to an excellent attack vector discovery in Pynchon; results: while a bandwidth-sparing protocol still makes sense, BitTorrent is out.
This was work for a Stanford course:

(Title revised from "Attacks on the Pynchon Gate's Use of BitTorrent")
Analysis of Flaws in the Bittorrent Component of Pynchon, Discovered by Fred Wulff. Len Sassaman. 2008. (Bibtex)


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