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Privacy-preserving networks w/ Harry Halpin from Nym

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NIM Provides Privacy Even Against Global, Passive Anomalies

Nim scrambles that digital finger print. As nim mixes the packets up and sends them out using a statistical process called a pason process, we can predict what the average latency should be. We never know exactly when each individual packet is released from either your your computer or a different node. All of these kinds of transactions, which essentially what we call message base transactions, and which can be delivered to some extent asynchronously are what nim can provide privacy against global, passive adversaries like the nsa.

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