Definitions
Crowds uses and defines the following terms:
- Sender
- The initiator of a message
- Receiver
- The final recipient of a message
- Probable Innocence
- The attacker is unable to have greater than 50% confidence that any node initiated the message (a node appears equally like to have initiated the message as to not have - each user is more likely innocent than not.)
- Local Eavesdropper
- An attacker that can observe all incoming and outgoing messages for any propersubset of the nodes
- Corrupt Node
- A node is corrupt if it uses information obtained from forwarding the message to determine the sender
- The number of corrupt nodes
- The number of nodes ( is the number of good nodes)
- The probability of forwarding
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