Anonymous network for product recycling

This paper proposes a new mechanism for anonymous communication to promote recycling of goods. It can be considered that one of the major barriers that makes people reluctant to exchange their goods is the traceability of people who sell or buy goods to be recycled. In terms of this traceability the current Internet is not suitable, when it is used as a communication platform for exchanging products to be recycled, i.e. identities of message senders can be disclosed easily by tracing message paths back to their senders. Although many anonymous network mechanisms had been proposed already, such as mix-net, DC-net, crowds and so on, they still have drawbacks. The proposed mechanism remove these drawbacks.