METHOD FOR PRIVATELY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION BETWEEN USERS OF A DATA TRANSMISSION NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to data transmission networks of the Internet type. One or more messages about the person of an information receiving user are formed on the device of said information receiving user, said messages are transmitted to the address of the intermediate device of the network, which is a boundary device for the information receiving user and in which the messages and the address of said user device are stored, and the received messages are transmitted to the address of an intermediate device, which is a regional device for the information receiving user, and in which the address of the boundary intermediate device and the received messages are stored. In the device, which is regional for the information receiving user, the message about the person of the user received from the information receiving user are compared with the earlier received messages about the person of the information receiving user, the address of the device, which is a boundary device for the information receiving user, is determined on the basis of the comparison results and the messages are transmitted to said address. In the boundary intermediate device, the message about the person of the user, received from the information receiving user, is compared with the earlier received messages, the address of the device of the information receiving user is determined on the basis of the comparison results and the messages from the information transmitting user are transmitted to the address of the device of the information receiving user. Said invention enables a network user to organise his own address space and to be protected against unauthorised distribution of information.