Originally published as Internet Research Volume 16 Number 2, 2006
ISBN: 1 84544 964 9
Guest edited by: Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece.
This Special Issue discusses the issues surrounding informational privacy – assuming that privacy is the indefeasible right of an individual to control the ways in which personal information is obtained, processed, distributed, shared and used by any other entity.
The review of current research work in the area of user privacy has indicated that the path for user privacy protection is through the four basic privacy requirements namely anonymity, pseudonymity, unlinkability and unobservability. By addressing these four basic requirements one aims to minimize the collection of user identifiable data.
Contents:
Anonymous attribute certificates based on traceable signatures
This article provides a cryptographic protocol for anonymously accessing services offered on the web. Such anonymous accesses can be disclosed or traced under certain conditions. This paper adds the unlinkability property to anonymous accesses together with a tracing facility to existing proposals.
Incorporating privacy requirements into the system design process: The PriS conceptual framework
This article presents a new methodology for incorporating privacy requirements into the system design process called PriS, and describes its applicability in the e-VOTE system for presenting methodology's way-of-working.
Protecting privacy in e-cash schemes by securing hidden identity approaches against statistical attacks
This article attempts to enhance security and privacy of e-cash systems that apply revocable anonymity by presenting a statistical attack that reveals the hidden ID and suitable protection means against this kind of attack.
An incentive-based architecture to enable privacy in dynamic environments
The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of priority-based incentives for collaborative hiding of confidential information in dynamic environments, such as self-organized networks, peer-to-peer systems, pervasive and grid computing applications.
Agyaat: mutual anonymity over structured P2P networks
Agyaat uses a novel hybrid-overlay design, a fully decentralized topology without any trusted proxies. It anonymizes both the querying and responding peers through the use of unstructured topologies, called clouds, which are added onto the structured overlays.
Regroup-And-Go mixes to counter the (n-1) attack
The (n-1) attack is the most powerful attack against mix which is the basic building block of many modern anonymous systems. This paper aims to present a strategy that can be implemented in mix networks to detect and counter the active attacks, especially the (n-1) attack and its variants.
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