Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage
This paper proposes lightweb, a new system for private browsing. A lightweb client can browse a web of textbased pages without revealing to anyone—not the network, not the servers hosting the pages—which pages it is reading. Unlike Tor and other anonymizing web proxies, which are inherently vulnerab...
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| author | Dauterman, Emma Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry |
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| description | This paper proposes lightweb, a new system for private browsing. A lightweb client can browse a web of textbased pages without revealing to anyone—not the network, not the servers hosting the pages—which pages it is reading. Unlike Tor and other anonymizing web proxies, which are inherently vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks, lightweb’s design protects against traffic-analysis attacks by design. While lightweb is
expensive in relative terms (hundreds of core-seconds of server computation per page load), we show with microbenchmarks that the total system cost can be inexpensive in absolute terms (comparable to the cost of a Netflix membership). This paper does not present a polished system, but instead aims to spark
discussion on radical approaches to a privacy-first web. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1531322024-01-11T21:02:44Z Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage Dauterman, Emma Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science This paper proposes lightweb, a new system for private browsing. A lightweb client can browse a web of textbased pages without revealing to anyone—not the network, not the servers hosting the pages—which pages it is reading. Unlike Tor and other anonymizing web proxies, which are inherently vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks, lightweb’s design protects against traffic-analysis attacks by design. While lightweb is expensive in relative terms (hundreds of core-seconds of server computation per page load), we show with microbenchmarks that the total system cost can be inexpensive in absolute terms (comparable to the cost of a Netflix membership). This paper does not present a polished system, but instead aims to spark discussion on radical approaches to a privacy-first web. 2023-12-11T21:16:41Z 2023-12-11T21:16:41Z 2023-11-28 2023-12-01T08:50:19Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153132 Dauterman, Emma and Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry. 2023. "Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage." PUBLISHER_CC en https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628207 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The author(s) application/pdf ACM|The 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks Association for Computing Machinery |
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| title | Lightweb: Private web browsing without all the baggage |
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