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Graduate Thesis 2011

Privacy Enforcement Architectures for an e-Business Environment

By
Dianshu Hu

Winter 2011

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of


Master of Computer Science

Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Carleton University


Supervisor: Dr. Evangelos Kranakis
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Carlisle Adams (SITE, University of Ottawa)

ABSTRACT

Privacy is major concern for both web users and e-businesses. Research and implementation have begun in the areas of privacy enforcement architecture like the Architecture for Privacy Enforcement using XML (APEX) and the complimentary mechanisms of APEX. This thesis provides the design of the Enhanced Architecture for Privacy Enforcement using XML (EAPEX)which takes into consideration user privacy preferences to enforce the negotiated privacy practices pertaining to web users’ private data and to address web users’ privacy concerns in an e-business environment. This thesis research also develops the design of new system architecture,called the Architecture for Privacy Enforcement using Policy Based Encryption (APEP), for negotiated privacy practices enforcement in the e-commerce environment using on a promising Policy Based Encryption (PBE) system. A major benefit of this architecture design is that it seems to have less system complexity because privacy control is automatically achieved by using the PBE.

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[ TH_mcs_2011_hu_0031.pdf ]