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Currently, Personal Privacy Violation is aggravated via regular internet activities, such as social networks, chats, or browsing websites. The providers of those services may have no user privacy policy. This may lead an intruder leaks the user personal data and violate the user’s privacy. Even worse, the intruder may cause an identity theft. Therefore, the development of an API for Tor on a Smartphone to prevent the privacy violation is crucial. Additionally, the highest usage-value Smartphone Operating System is iOS. As a result, we have developed an API to facilitate an application requiring privacy in communication with its server. The proposed API can send data without exposing the sender information via Tor Network. The experimental results show that the API can send data through Tor Network successfully, and it gives programmer convenience in the implementation process.
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Wittayasatiankul, S., Chumjai, S., Tuaycharoen, N. (2015). Tor’s API on iOS. In: Unger, H., Meesad, P., Boonkrong, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 361. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19024-2_27
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