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Protecting Privacy During On-line Trust Negotiation

Source: isrl.cs.byu.edu
Topic: Negotiating

Sort Desciption: trust negotiation and the approaches that can be taken to eliminate or minimize ... the messages exchanged during trust negotiation i.e. which credentials ...

Content Inside: Protecting Privacy During On-line Trust Negotiation Kent E. Seamons 1 Marianne Winslett 2 Ting Yu 2 Lina Yu 1 and Ryan Jarvis 1 1 Computer Science Department Brigham Young University Provo UT USA 84602 {seamons lina rjarvis}@cs.byu.edu 2 Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA 61801 {winslett tingyu}@cs.uiuc.edu Abstract. The dramatic growth of services and information on the Internet is accompanied by growing concerns over privacy. Trust negotiation is a new approach to establishing trust between strangers on the Internet through the bilateral exchange of digital credentials the on-line analogue to the paper credentials people carry in their wallets today. When a credential contains sensitive information its disclosure is governed by an access control policy that specifies credentials that must be received before the sensitive credential is disclosed. This paper identifies the privacy vulnerabilities present in on-line trust negotiation and the approaches that can be taken to eliminate or minimize them. The paper proposes modifications to negotiation strategies to help prevent the inadvertent disclosure of credential information during on-line trust negotiation for those credentials or credential attributes that have been designated as sensitive private information. 1 Introduction The dramatic growth of services and information on the Internet is accompanied by growing concerns over privacy from individuals corporations and government. Privacy is of grave concern to individuals and organizations operating in open systems like the Internet. According to Forrester Research only six percent of North Americans have a high level of confidence in the way Internet sites manage personal information 5. These concerns cause some to operate only under complete anonymity or to avoid going on-line altogether. Although anonymity may be appropriate and desirable for casual web browsing it is not a satisfactory s ...

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