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StegoWeb: Towards the Ideal Private Web Content Publishing Tool

Authors:
Tamás Besenyei
Ádám Máté Földes
Gábor György Gulyás
Sándor Imre

Keywords: Web 2.0; web privacy; user content; steganography

Abstract:
Privacy breaches through profiling constitute a considerable threat to users of Web 2.0 services. While many concepts have been proposed to address this issue by allowing users to encrypt, obfuscate, or otherwise conceal information of their choice, all have certain limitations. In this paper, we survey the available solutions, and propose a taxonomy for classifying them based on a revised evaluation scheme that builds upon our previous work. Our main contribution is a model that harnesses steganographic techniques in order to hide sensitive data, and the description of a proof-of-concept implementation thereof that allows a user to hide profile data on a website without installing any sort of software aside from a conventional web browser.

Pages: 109 to 114

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-146-5

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011