Content cloaking: preserving privacy with Google Docs and other web applications

  • Authors:
  • Gabriele D'Angelo;Fabio Vitali;Stefano Zacchiroli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bologna, Italy;University of Bologna, Italy;Université Paris Diderot, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Web office suites such as Google Docs offer unparalleled collaboration experiences in terms of low software requirements, ease of use, data ubiquity, and availability. When the data holder (Google, Microsoft, etc.) is not perceived as trusted though, those benefits are considered at stake with important privacy requirements. Content cloaking is a lightweight, cryptographic, client-side solution to protect content from data holders while using web office suites and other "Web 2.0", AJAX-based, collaborative applications.