The US Government understood the importance of protecting

美国政府意识到了保护网络通讯

its own online communications from surveillance.

免受监控的重要性

It began to put money into research.

他们开始投入研发资金

At the US Naval Research Laboratory,

在美国海军研究实验室

a team led by scientist Paul Syverson got to work.

由保罗·赛福森领导的团队在进行研发

Suppose we wanted to have a system

假设我们有一个系统

where people could communicate back to their home office

人们在这个系统里能通过网络

or with each other over the internet

和办公室或者其他人交流

but without people being able to

但却没有人能将

associate source and destination.

信息源和目标联系起来

Syverson soon came across the work of David Chaum.

很快赛福森想到了大卫·乔姆的文章

The first work which is associated with this area

第一个从事这方面研究的人

is the work of David Chaum.

是大卫·乔姆

A Chaum mix basically gets its security

乔姆混合法基本可以保证安全性

because it takes in a bunch of messages

因为它先输入一堆信息

and then re-orders them

然后重新排序

and changes their appearance and spews them out.

改变了信息的样子最后再将其输出

重点解释：

1.each other 互相；各自

例句：They took out their resentments on each other.

他们互相发泄怨气。

2.able to 能做 ...

例句：I may be able to help you in some way.

我也许可以从某个方面去帮助你。

3.a bunch of 很多

例句：Your friends are all just a bunch of nobodies.

你的朋友都不过是无名之辈。