Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2001

Abstract

In this paper we study the problem of how to protect users’ privacy in web transactions of digital goods. In particular, we introduce a system which allows a user to disclose his/her identity information (such as user account or credit card number) to a web site in exchange for a digital item, but prevents the web site from learning which specific item the user intends to obtain. The problem concerned here is orthogonal to the problem of anonymous transactions [RSG98], [RR98] but commensurate with the general problem of PIR (private information retrieval) [CGK95]

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

Information and Communications Security: Third International Conference, ICICS 2001: Xian, China, November 13-16, Proceedings

Volume

2229

First Page

202

Last Page

213

ISBN

9783540456001

Identifier

10.1007/3-540-45600-7_23

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Berlin

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45600-7_23

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