diff --git a/documentation/docs/pages/network/architecture.mdx b/documentation/docs/pages/network/architecture.mdx index 630eb45387..a587478377 100644 --- a/documentation/docs/pages/network/architecture.mdx +++ b/documentation/docs/pages/network/architecture.mdx @@ -1,13 +1,6 @@ # Network Components -The Nym platform knits together several privacy technologies, integrating them into a system of cooperating networked nodes in order to provide network-level privacy and metadata anonymity. - -The core components are: -* a **mixnet**, which encrypts and mixes Sphinx packet traffic so that it cannot be determined who is communicating with whom. Our mixnet is based on a modified version of the **Loopix TODO LINK** design. -* **Sphinx**, a way of transmitting armoured, layer-encrypted information packets which are indistinguishable from each other at a binary level. -* various **Nym clients** LINK which manage sending and receiving Sphinx packets, encrypting/decrypting traffic, and providing cover traffic TODO LINK to hide 'real' traffic timing. -* a privacy enhancing signature scheme called **zk-nym**, based on the Coconut and Ecash schemes. This allows a shift in thinking about resource access control, from an identity-based paradigm based on _who you are_ to a privacy-preserving paradigm based on _right to use_. -* A CosmWasm-enabled blockchain called **Nyx**, the home of the various smart contracts used by the mixnet. - -TODO REDO DIAGRAM -![Nym Platform](./images/nym-platform-dark.png) +Core components: +* A **Mixnet**, which encrypts and mixes Sphinx packet traffic so that it cannot be determined who is communicating with whom. Our mixnet is based on a modified version of the [**Loopix** design](concepts/loopix). This is made up of [Nym nodes](architecture/mixnet/nodes) runnning on servers around the world. +* Various [**Nym clients**](architecture/mixnet/clients) which manage sending and receiving Sphinx packets, encrypting/decrypting traffic, and providing [cover traffic](../concepts/cover-traffic) to hide 'real' traffic timing. +* A CosmWasm-enabled blockchain called [**Nyx**](architecture/nyx), the home of the various smart contracts used by the mixnet.