article · 2008

J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization

Janne Lindqvist, Juha-matti Tapio

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Abstract. Existing approaches for providing privacy without infrastructure have proposed to use pseudorandom or disposable identifiers on some or all layers of the protocol stack. These approaches either require changes to all hosts participating in the communication or do not provide privacy for the whole protocol stack. An alternative approach for providing privacy could be to implement an operating system policy for controlling the privacy for all possible network applications, but this might take considerable effort, and cannot easily take into account different preferences of users. Building on previous work, we propose a relatively simple approach: protocol stack virtualization. For example, every application that is connected to the network receives a distinct identifier space from the available spaces on all layers of the protocol stack. This approach does not need any infrastructure support from the network and requires only minor changes to the single host that implements the privacy protection mechanism. We have implemented the approach as a user space daemon and have tested it with a number of legacy applications such as Skype, FTP, Firefox web browser and a video streaming application to prove that the approach does not require any changes to existing applications. 1

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Lindqvist, J., & Tapio, J.-M. (2008). J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization.

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Lindqvist, Janne, and Juha-matti Tapio. “J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization.” 2008.

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Lindqvist, Janne, and Juha-matti Tapio. 2008. “J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization.”

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Lindqvist, J. and Tapio, J.-M. (2008) ‘J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization’.

BibTeX

@article{lindqvist2008protecting,
  title = {{J.M.: Protecting privacy with protocol stack virtualization}},
  author = {Lindqvist, Janne and Tapio, Juha-matti},
  year = {2008}
}

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