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Workshop On Privacy In The Electronic Society archive
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society table of contents

Alexandria, Virginia, USA

SESSION: Privacy preserving services and human factors table of contents

Pages: 84 - 90

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-883-1

Authors

Felipe Saint-Jean	Yale University, New Haven, CT
Aaron Johnson	Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dan Boneh	Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Joan Feigenbaum	Yale University, New Haven, CT

Sponsors

SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Web search is currently a source of growing concern about personal privacy. It is an essential and central part of most users' activity online and therefore one through which a significant amount of personal information may be revealed.To help users protect their privacy, we have designed and implemented Private WebSearch (PWS), a usable client-side tool that minimizes the information that users reveal to a search engine. Our tool protects users against attacks that involve active components and timing information, to which more general Web-browsing privacy tools (including the combination of FoxTor and Privoxy) are vulnerable. PWS is a Firefox plugin that functions as an HTTP proxy and as a client for the Tor anonymity network. It configures Firefox so that search queries executed from the PWS search box are routed through the HTTP proxy and Tor client, filtering potentially sensitive or identifying components of the request and response.

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