Mass surveillance of the population by state agencies and corporate parties is now a well-known fact. Journalists and whistle-blowers still lack means to circumvent global spying for the sake of their investigations. With Spores, we propose a way for journalists and their sources to plan a posteriori file exchanges when they physically meet. We leverage on the multiplication of personal devices per capita to provide a lightweight, robust and fully anonymous decentralised file transfer protocol between users. Spores hinges on our novel concept of e-squads: one's personal devices, rendered intelligent by gossip communication protocols, can provide private and dependable services to their user. People's e-squads are federated into a novel onion routing network, able to withstand the inherent unreliability of personal appliances while providing reliable routing. Spores' performances are competitive, and its privacy properties of the communication outperform state of the art onion routing strategies.

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孢子：E-Squad 的无状态预测洋葱路由

国家机构和企业团体对人口的大规模监视现在是众所周知的事实。为了调查，记者和举报人仍然缺乏规避全球间谍活动的手段。通过孢子，我们为记者和他们的消息来源提出了一种在他们见面时计划后验文件交换的方法。我们利用人均个人设备的增加，在用户之间提供轻量级、强大且完全匿名的去中心化文件传输协议。孢子取决于我们对电子小队的新颖概念：个人设备通过八卦通信协议变得智能，可以为其用户提供私密且可靠的服务。人们的电子小队联合成一个新颖的洋葱路由网络，能够承受个人设备固有的不可靠性，同时提供可靠的路由。孢子的性能具有竞争力，其通信隐私特性优于最先进的洋葱路由策略。