sesa 15(4): e4

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Towards Privacy-Preserving Web Metering Via User-Centric Hardware

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.5-10-2015.150478,
    author={Fahad  Alarfi and Maribel  Fern\^{a}ndez},
    title={Towards Privacy-Preserving Web Metering Via User-Centric Hardware},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety},
    volume={2},
    number={4},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SESA},
    year={2015},
    month={10},
    keywords={Web Metering, Privacy-Preserving Technologies, Privacy Protection, Cryptographic Hardware, Smart Cards And Privacy, Network \& Distributed Systems Security},
    doi={10.4108/eai.5-10-2015.150478}
}
  • Fahad Alarfi
    Maribel Fernández
    Year: 2015
    Towards Privacy-Preserving Web Metering Via User-Centric Hardware
    SESA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-10-2015.150478
Fahad Alarfi1,*, Maribel Fernández1
  • 1: King’s College London, Department of Informatics, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK.
*Contact email: fahad.alarifi@kcl.ac.uk

Abstract

Privacy is a major issue today as more and more users are connecting and participating in the Internet. This paper discusses privacy issues associated with web metering schemes and explores the dilemma of convincing interested parties of the merits of web metering results with sufficient detail, and still preserving users’ privacy. We analyse different categories of web metering schemes using an established privacy guideline and show how web metering can conflict with privacy. We propose a web metering scheme utilising user-centric hardware to provide web metering evidence in an enhanced privacy-preserving manner.

Keywords
Web Metering, Privacy-Preserving Technologies, Privacy Protection, Cryptographic Hardware, Smart Cards And Privacy, Network & Distributed Systems Security
Received
2014-09-25
Accepted
2014-12-22
Published
2015-10-05
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.5-10-2015.150478

Copyright © 2015 F. Alarifi and M. Fernández, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.