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 choose to get higher anonymity for their messages, the key property it
 provides is a network effect: when \emph{some} users ask for higher
 anonymity, \emph{all} users can benefit.
-
-We have only begun to explore the possibilities and analysis of this
+While we proved anonymity properties for the simplest versions of
+alpha mixing,
+we have only begun to explore the possibilities and analysis of this
 design. Future work includes:
 
 \paragraph{Multiple messages and stream-based communication:} This paper
 has assumed the \emph{single-message model}, where each sender produces
-individual uncorrelated messages. Much of the reason for Tor's success
-is not just its low overhead, but rather its support for bidirectional
+individual uncorrelated messages. We did describe countermeasures to
+end-to-end timing correlations in Section~\ref{sec:beta-alpha}; however,
+we have not carefully examined the implications of stream-based communication.
+Much of the reason for the success of Tor and JAP
+is not just the low overhead, but rather their support for bidirectional
 streams. But the \emph{stream model} introduces many end-to-end anonymity
 attacks that seem hard to resolve simply with better batching strategies.
 
-\paragraph{A full analysis of the alpha mix design:} Here we
-have added an additional user-defined security parameter and explored
+\paragraph{A full analysis of the alpha mix design:} In this paper we
+have added to mixes an additional user-defined security parameter and explored
 some scenarios of attacker's knowledge about it. However, the more
 complex dynamic-alpha mixes and tau mixes are yet to be analysed; this seems
 difficult as we need to make some assumptions both about how users

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