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In electronic communication, anonymous publication is the act of making publicly available text (eg, articles, reviews, commentary) which cannot be traced to the author unless the text itself identifies (or hints at) the author.
Purpose
Free speech is sometimes suppressed, and in other cases the author may have reasons for keeping his identity secret (particularly if the writing to is of a political, social, or religious nature). On these issues, opinions are generally strong, with many highly diverse viewpoints. Anonymous Publication systems attempt to ensure that anyone, of any opinion, can have their work published, whilst remaining unidentified.
Methods Systems have been developed which, using cryptography and/or steganography, can make available, untraceably, electronic copies of any text while making it next to impossible for anyone to erase all copies or to prevent access to the text. Software has been written and released which does this. For those with access to the Internet, access to such anonymously published material cannot be, in practice, prevented. Cryptography portal Cryptography (from Greek kryptós, hidden, and gráphein, to write) is, traditionally, the study of means of converting information from its normal, comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format, rendering it unreadable without secret knowledge — the art of encryption. ...
Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message is clear, but the meaning is obscured. ...
Historical examples - publishing on paper of unattributed books/pamphlets, beginning w/ Gutenberg?? pupils??
- samizdat, largely 20th century
- publishing in Holland of works prohibited elsewhere, during reformation / counter reformation
- Galileo instance
Current implementations status, release history, features, drawbacks of:
Freenet, GNUnet, Freeway This article is about the peer-to-peer file sharing software called Freenet. ...
GNUnet is a framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. ...
A typical freeway with an interchange in the foreground Rush hour on the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles A typical rural freeway (Interstate 5 in the Central Valley of California). ...
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