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APOD: Anonymous Physical Object Delivery

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS 2009)

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Delivery of products bought online can violate consumers’ privacy, although not in a straightforward way. In particular, delivery companies that have contracted with a website know the company selling the product, as well as the name and address of the online customer. To make matters worse, if the same delivery company has contracted with many websites, aggregated information per address may be used to profile customers’ transaction activities. In this paper, we present a fair delivery service system with guaranteed customer anonymity and merchant-customer unlinkability, with reasonable assumptions about the threat model.

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  1. Columbia University,  

    Elli Androulaki & Steven Bellovin

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  1. Elli Androulaki
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  1. David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Ian Goldberg

  2. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 305 North University Street, IN 47907-2107, West Lafayete, USA

    Mikhail J. Atallah

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Androulaki, E., Bellovin, S. (2009). APOD: Anonymous Physical Object Delivery. In: Goldberg, I., Atallah, M.J. (eds) Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PETS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5672. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03168-7_12

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