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Reputation in Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Reputation in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Paul Syverson Naval Research Laboratory E-mail: syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil URL: www.syverson.org. joint work with Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson The Free Haven Project URL: www.freehaven.net. PETs does more than you think for privacy.

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Reputation in Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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  1. Reputation in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Paul Syverson Naval Research Laboratory E-mail: syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil URL: www.syverson.org joint work with Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson The Free Haven Project URL: www.freehaven.net

  2. PETs does more than you think for privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (www.pet2002.org) Basic research on defining anonymity (information theory) • Allows us to measure the privacy provided by a system Surprising system designs • Private Information Retrieval (PIR): • Server cannot tell what was downloaded • Location protected communication: Cell phones, Smart Tag Available systems • Bugnosis: tells users when they get a web bug • LPWA/Proxymate: stateless, cryptographically robust, single signon • Safe Cookies: Sanitizing proxies • Cookie cooker: exchange cookies of participants

  3. PETs does more than you think for security Law Enforcement • Anonymous communication makes people more comfortable when contacting authorities • PETs protects activities of law enforcement Business • Liability reduced if business • properly manages private data • understands and is consistent with its privacy policy • Liability is really reduced if business can show it could not have (or access) private data Everyone • Pseudonymous certificates and authorization reduce identity theft and fraud

  4. Reputation in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reputation can enable privacy by reducing demand for information Remailer Networks How do you know if your message got through? Pinging only works for small, static networks Censorship-resistant Publishing Distributed (peer) servers store shares of documents for each other. Reputation keeps servers honest about storage. If a server reliably stores shares, it gains reputation Server (client) can "spend" reputation to store its own shares.

  5. Conclusions: New Directions Reputation is not pixie dust. Reputation is already being used: eBay, Amazon, Slashdot, Google Reputation is itself a source of vulnerabilities Can we treat reputation as currency? To handle our pseudonymous future, we need good reputation systems PETs can solve a surprising variety of privacy problems Security and Privacy are not at odds, they are mutually dependent.

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