A Layered Architecture for Privacy-enhancing Technologies

Martin S Olivier

2003

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Citation information

MS Olivier, "A Layered Architecture for Privacy-enhancing Technologies," South African Computer Journal, 31, 53-61, 2003

or

MS Olivier, "A Layered Architecture for Privacy-enhancing Technologies," in JHP Eloff, HS Venter, L Labuschagne, and MM Eloff (eds), Proceedings of the Third Annual Information Security South Africa Conference (ISSA2003), Sandton, South Africa, 113-126, July 2003

Abstract

While a number of privacy-enhancing technologies have been proposed over the past quarter century, very little has been done to generalise the notion. Privacy-enhancing technologies have typically been discussed for specific applications (such as confidential and/or anonymous e-mail) or in specific contexts (such as on the Internet). This paper takes cognisance of existing privacy-enhancing technologies, abstracts from them to a more general environment, and structures the technologies in a general architecture, based on the relationships between the technologies.

The resulting architecture consists of four layers, viz the personal communications, identity management, organisational safeguards and personal control layers. It is also argued that a strong ordering exists between the layers - in the order just given.

The proposed architecture can form the basis of an approach to constructing integrated, comprehensive privacy solutions.

Keywords

Privacy architecture, personal privacy

BibTeX entry

@ARTICLE(privarch2,
  AUTHOR={Martin S Olivier},
  TITLE={A Layered Architecture for Privacy-enhancing Technologies},
  JOURNAL={South African Computer Journal},
  VOLUME={31},
  PAGES={53--61},
  YEAR={2003} )

or

@INPROCEEDINGS(privarch,
  AUTHOR={Martin S Olivier},
  TITLE={A Layered Architecture for Privacy-enhancing Technologies},
  BOOKTITLE={Proceedings of the Third Annual {I}nformation {S}ecurity 
    {S}outh {A}frica Conference (ISSA2003)},
  EDITOR={Jan H P Eloff and Hein S Venter and Les Labuschagne and Mariki 
    M Eloff},
  PAGES={113--126},
  MONTH={July},
  YEAR={2003},
  ADDRESS={Sandton, South Africa} )

Full text

The full text may be downloaded from http://mo.co.za/open/privarch2.pdf (PDF, 79K) (journal version) or http://mo.co.za/open/privarch.pdf (PDF, 76K) (conference version).

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