Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation

Panagiotis Papadopoulos; Ilias Athanasopoulos; Eleni Kosta; George Siganos; Angelos D. Keromytis; Evangelos P. Markatos

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_17

Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation

Panagiotis Papadopoulos^*
, Ilias Athanasopoulos
, Eleni Kosta
, George Siganos
, Angelos D. Keromytis
, Evangelos P. Markatos

^*Corresponding author for this work

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With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, data traces that correspond to users’ network activity can be collected by several Internet actors, including (i) web sites, (ii) smartphone apps, and even (iii) Internet Service Providers. Given that the collection and storage of these data are beyond the control of the end user, these data traces can be easily manipulated, if not, tampered with. The result of such manipulated digital traces can be severe: Innocent users can be shamed or even wrongfully accused of carrying out illegal transactions. To eliminate these potential accusations on innocent users, we introduce Provable Network Activity (PNA): a framework with which the ISPs can give the end users control of their stored traces. The framework guarantees that the information collected for the end users is accurate and will remain accurate for as long as it is stored. Our implementation and preliminary evaluation suggest that PNA is fast, easy to deploy, and introduces zero network latency to the end clients.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer/Verlag
Pages	254-261
Number of pages	8
Volume	9895 LNCS
ISBN (Print)	9783319459301
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_17
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice, WISTP 2016 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece Duration: 26 Sept 2016 → 27 Sept 2016

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9895 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

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Conference	10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice, WISTP 2016
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion, Crete
Period	26/09/16 → 27/09/16

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Papadopoulos, P., Athanasopoulos, I., Kosta, E., Siganos, G., Keromytis, A. D., & Markatos, E. P. (2016). Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation. In Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9895 LNCS, pp. 254-261). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9895 LNCS). Springer/Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_17

Papadopoulos, Panagiotis ; Athanasopoulos, Ilias ; Kosta, Eleni et al. / Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation. Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9895 LNCS Springer/Verlag, 2016. pp. 254-261 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Papadopoulos, P, Athanasopoulos, I, Kosta, E, Siganos, G, Keromytis, AD & Markatos, EP 2016, Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation. in Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9895 LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9895 LNCS, Springer/Verlag, pp. 254-261, 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice, WISTP 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 26/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_17

Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation. / Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Athanasopoulos, Ilias; Kosta, Eleni et al.
Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9895 LNCS Springer/Verlag, 2016. p. 254-261 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9895 LNCS).

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Papadopoulos P, Athanasopoulos I, Kosta E, Siganos G, Keromytis AD, Markatos EP. Provable network activity for protecting users against false accusation. In Information Security Theory and Practice - 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9895 LNCS. Springer/Verlag. 2016. p. 254-261. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45931-8_17

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