Title
Design of PriServ, a privacy service for DHTs
Abstract
By decentralizing control, P2P systems provide efficient, scalable data sharing. However, when sharing data for different purposes (e.g., billing, purchase, shipping, etc.), data privacy can be easily violated by untrustworthy peers wich may use data for other purposes (e.g., marketing, fraudulence, profiling, etc.). A basic principle of data privacy is purpose specification which states that data providers should be able to specify the purpose for which their data will be collected and used. In the context of P2P systems, decentralized control makes it hard to enforce purpose-based privacy. And the major problem of data disclosure is not addressed. Hippocratic databases provide mechanisms for enforcing purpose-based disclosure control within a corporation datastore. In this paper, we apply the Hippocratic database principles to P2P systems to enforce purpose-based privacy. We focus on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs), because they provide strong guarantees in terms of access performance. We propose PriServ, a privacy service which prevents privacy violation by prohibiting malicious data access. The performance evaluation of our approach through simulation shows that the overhead introduced by PriServ is small.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1379287.1379293
PAIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
purpose-based privacy,decentralized control,privacy violation,scalable data,data provider,p2p system,data disclosure,data privacy,privacy service,malicious data access,auditing,data access,distributed hash table,bayesian network
Internet privacy,Privacy by Design,Computer science,Data sharing,Information privacy,Statistical database,Data access,Privacy software,Hash table,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.60
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Jawad1191.60
Patricia Serrano-alvarado214217.21
Patrick Valduriez334591306.40