With this goal we’ve set ourselves onto an epic journey. Just to be clear — privacy to all Internet users cannot be ensured just by launching yet another VPN app and simply adding “decentralization” to it. It’s a lot more complicated. Truly aiming for this goal, we have to understand core elements of the Internet, design and create an adequate mechanism enabling private communication between any two points, constantly seek for any possible threats and develop ways neutralizing them.

In today’s world, our privacy is constantly breached at someone else’s will. Let’s see if we can create a safer world of tomorrow — one where our privacy is protected.

Elements delivering “Privacy on Demand”

At Mysterium, we’ve identified several elements needed to enable privacy:

I. Carefully designed Protocol, enabling any kind of Entity (e.g. IoT device, person, server etc.) to anonymously find another Entity, open up a private communication channel with it and engage in an uninterrupted/unmonitored conversation;

II. Decentralised Network of Nodes — various machines connected into the network and following the rules set out in the Protocol while providing the core service by encrypting/decrypting/shredding/recollecting/relaying messages between the “talking” entities.

Centralized vs Decentralized (from Mysterium video)

III. Coordinating Components designed to orchestrate all the processes such as payments or node discovery into a coherent “play” making sure that every element plays according to the protocol.

Control Tower

The result: in theory these elements alone could provide us with “Privacy on Demand”. In reality it would also require the user to be quite tech savvy in order to enjoy it, because he would be using Mysterium API instead of a friendly App. So you might ask — what’s next?

In order to ensure privacy is something everyone can enjoy, we must go one step further and create technological bridges — tools, designed for app developers, so they could use “Privacy on demand” anytime their process needs it.

That’s why from the very start we are designing Mysterium into “Network as a service”. Once developed, the whole network will act as a whole and provide privacy at a call of an API. Naturally, we will be working with various dApp developers-building real use cases.

This brings us to the final — IV’th Element:

IV. Ecosystem of dApps using Mysterium API will provide you with the wanted benefits like communication, music streaming, banking, etc. with Mysterium Network acting “behind the scenes” making sure that communication between you and whoever is on the other side (server, another person, bank, etc.) is kept private from prying eyes.