31 Igor Margasinski 2009 Audun Jøsang Torleiv Maseng Svein J. Knapskog Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age Springer-Verlag 5838 28-43 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 978-3-642-04765-7 communication systems security, privacy, anonymity, anonymous network architectures Considering topologies of anonymous networks we used to organizing anonymous communication into hard to trace paths hiding its origin or destination. In anonymity the company is crucial, however the serial transportation imposes a costly tradeoff between a level of privacy and a speed of communication. In this paper a framework of a novel architecture for anonymous networks is introduced that hides initiators of communications by parallelization of anonymous links. The new approach, which is based on the grounds of the anonymous P2P network called P2Priv, does not require content forwarding via a chain of proxy nodes to assure high degree of anonymity. Contrary to P2Priv, the new architecture can be suited to anonymization of various network communications, including anonymous access to distributed as well as client-server services. In particular, it can be considered as an anonymization platform for these network applications where both privacy and low delays are required. http://p2priv.org/pub/netpriv-nordsec2009.pdf