Defending email communication against profiling attacks

ABSTRACT

We define message privacy against a <i>profiling</i> adversary, whose goal is to classify a population of users into categories according to the messages they exchange. This adversary models the most common privacy threat against email communication. We propose a protocol that protects senders and receivers of email messages from profiling attacks.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General
          Subjects: Security and protection (e.g., firewalls)

General Terms:
Security

Keywords:
email, encryption, privacy, profiling