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The dramatic growth of services and information on the Internet is accompanied by growing concerns over privacy. Trust negotiation is a new approach to establishing trust between strangers on the Internet through the bilateral exchange of digital credentials, the on-line analogue to the paper credentials people carry in their wallets today. When a credential contains sensitive information, its disclosure is governed by an access control policy that specifies credentials that must be received before the sensitive credential is disclosed. This paper identifies the privacy vulnerabilities present in on-line trust negotiation and the approaches that can be taken to eliminate or minimize those vulnerabilities. The paper proposes modifications to negotiation strategies to help prevent the inadvertent disclosure of credential information during online trust negotiation for those credentials or credential attributes that have been designated as sensitive, private information.
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Seamons, K.E., Winslett, M., Yu, T., Yu, L., Jarvis, R. (2003). Protecting Privacy during On-Line Trust Negotiation. In: Dingledine, R., Syverson, P. (eds) Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PET 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36467-6_10
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