[Integration] — KAIZEN x NYM

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portalnetworkofficial

2 min readNov 6, 2019

Portal Network’s KAIZEN-CLI now supports Nym.

Nym is a blockchain-based privacy platform. It provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.

KAIZEN integrated NYM to help developers to easily host mixnode on AWS using AWS AMI via `kaizen instances run nym-loopix-mixnode` dev. can start nym mixnode on it’s own AWS account.

TLDR: NPM for download — http://bit.ly/2lSH2Qy

Building the next generation of privacy infrastructure

The most popular network-level privacy solution currently is the VPN (virtual private network), which provides…

nymtech.net

What is NYM?

What is NYM?

Features

The NYM protocol is a powerful privacy-enhanced authentication protocol which allows users to embed arbitrary attributes in decentralized, unlinkable (re-randomizable), and publicly verifiable credentials.

The NYM protocol provides users and service providers with a private and decentralized replacement for Facebook Connect and Google Sign-In. ‍ Our partners are already building a number of powerful NYM-enabled apps.

Technical Info

The mixnet sends all network traffic through layers of mix-nodes, using the Sphinx packet format (also used in the Lightning Network) so that all packets of data are the same size and routing information is kept private.

Each mix-node in the network delays the messages and generates fake “dummy messages” to create a uniform pattern of traffic which obfuscates patterns for adversaries observing the network. Future use-cases include serving as a “decentralized VPN”.

A cross-platform experimental wallet supporting Mimblewimble, and potentially other privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies including Moneroand Zcash.

The wallet supports the mixnet automatically by default to provide privacy on the p2p level.

Integration with the NYM protocol is in progress in order to enable privacy-enhanced authentication for other privacy enhanced services like secure messaging.

Start using NYM w/ KAIZEN-CLI

```
STEP 1: Install KAIZEN to support NYM
```npm install -g kaizen-cli
```STEP 2: Setup AWS access key for KAIZEN
```
kaizen config set --key accessKey --value <ACCESS_KEY>
```STEP 3: Setup AWS secret key for KAIZEN
```
kaizen config set --key secretKey --value <SECRET_KEY>
```STEP 4: Run NYM instance on AWS
```kaizen instances run nym-loopix-mixnode
```

That’s it, we hope you enjoy using KAIZEN-CLI and NYM, let us know what we should integrate next.

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