Journal of the ACM (JACM)
CRYPTO '89 Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Wallet Databases with Observers
CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Mix-Networks on Permutation Networks
ASIACRYPT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security: Advances in Cryptology
FOCS '95 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Replication is not needed: single database, computationally-private information retrieval
FOCS '97 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Towards an Ontology Driven Spam Filter
ICDEW '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops
Privacy-enhancing personalized web search
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Efficient Spam Email Filtering using Adaptive Ontology
ITNG '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology
Privacy protection in personalized search
ACM SIGIR Forum
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society
Privacy preservation improvement by learning optimal profile generation rate
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
A survey of single-database private information retrieval: techniques and applications
PKC'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Practice and theory in public-key cryptography
A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Using social networks to distort users' profiles generated by web search engines
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Private web search with malicious adversaries
PETS'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
MDAI'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling decisions for artificial intelligence
UPS: efficient privacy protection in personalized web search
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Exploiting social networks to provide privacy in personalized web search
Journal of Systems and Software
Rational behavior in peer-to-peer profile obfuscation for anonymous keyword search
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Review: A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Web search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, etc.) are widely used to find certain data among a huge amount of information in a minimal amount of time. However, these useful tools also pose a privacy threat to the users: web search engines profile their users by storing and analyzing past searches submitted by them. To address this privacy threat, current solutions propose new mechanisms that introduce a high cost in terms of computation and communication. In this paper we present a novel protocol specially designed to protect the users' privacy in front of web search profiling. Our system provides a distorted user profile to the web search engine. We offer implementation details and computational and communication results that show that the proposed protocol improves the existing solutions in terms of query delay. Our scheme provides an affordable overhead while offering privacy benefits to the users.