Probabilistic Anonymity

Mohit Bhargava, Catuscia Palamidessi

Abstract: The concept of anonymity comes into play in a wide range of situations, varying from voting and anonymous donations to postings on bulletin boards and sending mails. The systems for ensuring anonymity often use random mechanisms which can be described probabilistically, while the agents’ interest in performing the anonymous action may be totally unpredictable, irregular, and hence expressable only nondeterministically.