Privacy-Enhancing Technique: A Survey and Classification

Abstract

Key Terms in this Chapter

Anonymous E-Cash: Electronic payment system or protocol that provides anonymity to its users.

APPEL: A language specification to define rules for acceptance of certain P3P policies.

GeoPriv: An IETF working group, which assesses the authorization, integrity and privacy requirements of transfer, release or representation of geographic location information through an agent.

Pseudonyms: Bogus identity, possible temporary, used in order to hide the real identity.

P3P: The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents.

Privacy Enhancing Techniques: Technical means that provide anonymity, intractability in networks.

Mix Networks: Ccombination of proxy chains and asymmetric cryptography that enables hard-to-trace communication over unprotected networks.