The sphinxmix package implements the Sphinx mix packet format core cryptographic functions.

The paper describing sphinx may be found here:

George Danezis and Ian Goldberg. Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2009. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/Sphinx_Oakland09.pdf

Beyond the original proposal it allows for clients to communicate additional information to mix servers to implement arbitrary mixing strategies.

This fork makes some minor changes to the orignal python implementation to make it compatible with the JavaScript implementation.

The default curve used is now NISTP256. Points are encoded in uncompressed format. Also routing flags are now byte sized integers rather than byte arrays.

Sphinx v0.8-UCL README 2016-11-12 George Danezis g.danezis@ucl.ac.uk

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This is a UCL branch and port of the original Sphinx software to using modern python libraries, including petlib for cryptography and msgpack for binary formats. It also decouples the message processing from other concerns to allow sphix to be embedded into other applications. It is based on the original software by Ian Goldberg (U. Waterloo) and retains both his copyright and the original LGPL licence.