Overview

This textbook provides a unique lens through which the myriad of existing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) can be easily comprehended and appreciated. It answers key privacy-centered questions with clear and detailed explanations. Why is privacy important? How and why is your privacy being eroded and what risks can this pose for you? What are some tools for protecting your privacy in online environments? How can these tools be understood, compared, and evaluated? What steps can you take to gain more control over your personal data? This book addresses the above questions by focusing on three fundamental elements: It introduces a simple classification of PETs that allows their similarities and differences to be highlighted and analyzed; It describes several specific PETs in each class, including both foundational technologies and important recent additions to the field; It explainshow to use this classification to determine which privacy goals are actually achievable in a given real-world environment. Once the goals are known, this allows the most appropriate PETs to be selected in order to add the desired privacy protection to the target environment. To illustrate, the book examines the use of PETs in conjunction with various security technologies, with the legal infrastructure, and with communication and computing technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Machine Learning (ML). Designed as an introductory textbook on PETs, this book is essential reading for graduate-level students in computer science and related fields, prospective PETs researchers, privacy advocates, and anyone interested in technologies to protect privacy in online environments.

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Author:   Carlisle Adams
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9783030810429

ISBN 10:   3030810429
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   31 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.    The Privacy Minefield 1.1.     Threats to Privacy 1.2.     The Battle for Supremacy over Personal Data 1.3.     High-Stakes Hide-and-Seek 1.4.     Summary References 2.    A Collection of Tools:  The Privacy Tree 2.1.     Many Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2.2.     Classification (Privacy Tree) 2.3.     Previous Work on Classifications for Privacy 2.4.     The Selected Privacy Tree 2.5.     The Remainder of this Book References 3.    Limiting Exposure by Hiding the Identity 3.1.     Mix Network 3.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 3.1.2.   Enhancements 3.1.3.   Strengths 3.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 3.2.     Anonymous Remailer 3.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 3.2.2.   Enhancements 3.2.3.   Strengths 3.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 3.3.     Onion Routing and Tor 3.3.1.   The Basic Scheme 3.3.2.   Enhancements 3.3.3.   Strengths 3.3.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 3.4.     Summary References 4.    Limiting Exposure by Hiding the Action 4.1.     Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) 4.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 4.1.2.   Enhancements 4.1.3.   Strengths 4.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 4.2.     Network Layer Security (IPsec in Transport Mode) 4.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 4.2.2.   Enhancements 4.2.3.   Strengths 4.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 4.3.     Private Information Retrieval (PIR) 4.3.1.   The Basic Scheme 4.3.2.   Enhancements 4.3.3.   Strengths 4.3.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 4.4.     Summary References 5.    Limiting Exposure by Hiding the Identity-Action Pair 5.1.     Network Layer Security (IPsec in Tunnel Mode) 5.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 5.1.2.   Enhancements 5.1.3.   Strengths 5.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 5.2.     Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging 5.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 5.2.2.   Enhancements 5.2.3.   Strengths 5.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 5.3.     Summary References 6.    Limiting Disclosure by Hiding the Identity 6.1.     k-Anonymity 6.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 6.1.2.   Enhancements 6.1.3.   Strengths 6.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 6.2.     Credential Systems 6.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 6.2.2.   Enhancements 6.2.3.   Strengths 6.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 6.3.     Summary References 7.    Limiting Disclosure by Hiding the Attribute 7.1.     Database Protection Approaches 7.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 7.1.2.   Enhancements 7.1.3.   Strengths 7.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 7.2.     Multi-Party Computation 7.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 7.2.2.   Enhancements 7.2.3.   Strengths 7.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 7.3.     e-Differential Privacy 7.3.1.   The Basic Scheme 7.3.2.   Enhancements 7.3.3.   Strengths 7.3.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 7.4.     Summary References 8.    Limiting Disclosure by Hiding the Identity-Attribute Pair 8.1.     Hippocratic Databases (HDB) 8.1.1.   The Basic Scheme 8.1.2.   Enhancements 8.1.3.   Strengths 8.1.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 8.2.     Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) 8.2.1.   The Basic Scheme 8.2.2.   Enhancements 8.2.3.   Strengths 8.2.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 8.3.     Architecture for Privacy Enforcement using XML (APEX) 8.3.1.   The Basic Scheme 8.3.2.   Enhancements 8.3.3.   Strengths 8.3.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 8.4.     Credential Systems Showing Properties of Attributes 8.4.1.   The Basic Scheme 8.4.2.   Enhancements 8.4.3.   Strengths 8.4.4.   Disadvantages, Limitations, and Weaknesses 8.5.     Summary References 9.    Using the Privacy Tree in Practice 9.1.     In Conjunction with Security Technologies 9.2.     In Conjunction with the Legal Infrastructure 9.3.     In Conjunction with Other Technologies 9.3.1.   Software Defined Networking (SDN) 9.3.2.   Machine Learning (ML) 9.4.     Summary References 10. The Path Forward 10.1.  The First Step:  Decisions 10.1.1.    Hide-and-Seek (Revisited) 10.1.2.    Defense-in-Depth 10.2.  The Next Step:  Actions 10.3.  Summary References   Supplemental Chapters 11. Crypto Primer 11.1.  Terminology 11.2.  Goals:  Confidentiality, Integrity, Authenticity, Cryptographic Strength 11.3.  Realizing These Goals in Practice 11.3.1.    Confidentiality 11.3.2.    Integrity 11.3.3.    Authenticity 11.3.4.    Cryptographic Strength 11.4.  Summary References 12. Source Material 12.1.  Full List of Hyperlinked References 12.2.  Hyperlinked Bibliography 12.3.  Further Reading on Selected Topics Glossary Index

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Carlisle Adams is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at University of Ottawa.  Prior to his academic appointment in 2003, he worked for 13 years in industry (Nortel, Entrust) in the design and international standardization of a variety of cryptographic and security technologies for the Internet.  Dr. Adams’ research interests include all aspects of applied cryptography and security. Particular areas of interest and technical contributions include the design and analysis of symmetric encryption algorithms (including the CAST family of symmetric ciphers), the design of large-scale infrastructures for authentication (including secure protocols for authentication and certificate management in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) environments), and comprehensive architectures and policy languages for access control in electronic networks (including X.509 attribute certificates and the XACML policy language). Dr. Adams has maintained a long-standing interest in the creation of effective techniques to preserve and enhance privacy on the Internet.  His contributions in this area include techniques to add delegation, non-transferability, and multi-show to Digital Credentials, architectures to enforce privacy in web-browsing environments, and mechanisms to add privacy to location-based services and blockchains.  He was Co-Chair of the international conference Selected Areas in Cryptography (1997, 1999, 2007, and 2017), and was General Chair of the 7th International Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (2007). He lives in Ottawa with his wife and children and enjoys music, good food, and classic movies (old and new).

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