Protocols that hide user's preferences in electronic transactions

• Main Authors: BAO, Feng, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Anonymizer; Encryption; Privacy protection; On-line transaction; Digital products; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1170; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2004.10.010
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Internet creates many new threats to personal privacy and raises some unique privacy concerns. In this paper we study the problem of how to protect users’ privacy in web transactions of digital products. In particular, we introduce a system which (1) allows a user to disclose his/her identity in...