Reports

Privacy on Web 2.0 [ download pdf ]

You already have zero privacy; get over it. These were the exact words of Scott McNealy during the presentation of Sun's Jini. In fact, the insufficient U.S. legislation for web privacy at that time pointed to that direction. Nowadays, the amounts have changed signifi cantly; the world wide web is an extension and in some aspects a replacement of the real world. Internet is a tool for many purposes such as entertainment, shopping, financial management, investing, and socializing. Unfortunately, this massive invasion of Internet in the modern societies exposed weaknesses in their legal systems; their legislation was not ready for this new medium.

In this article we focus on the modern aspect of the world wide web, known as Web 2.0, and especially on the legal framework that secures the privacy of its users. The article is organized as follows: fi rstly, we define Web 2.0 and comment its current general impact; then we focus on user personal data privacy on Web 2.0 and we present possible ways of invoking his privacy; afterwards we draw our attention on web privacy legal frameworks in the United States (hereinafter U.S.) and the European Union (hereinafter EU); in the end, we refer to ways able to enhance user's privacy ... read more

 

A Report on Timing Attacks [ download pdf ]

A side channel attack tries to exploit specific properties of the implementation and operating environment of a cryptosystem rather than its mathematical specification. Timing attacks are a subclass of side channel attacks where the attacker tries to break an encryption algorithm by using information about the execution times of its encryption or decryption queries. In general, a timing attack tries to exploit private information from a system by timing specific system's operations. In this report, a vast amount of different types of timing attacks is described ... read more