作者: Daniel Zappala , Scott Ruoti , Kent Seamons
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摘要: Users today share a great deal of private information on the Web. While HTTPS protects this data during transmission, it does not protect at rest, nor user from websites which store or transmit that data. These issues can be addressed with user-to-user encryption, an approach where is encrypted and decrypted user's computer opaque to websites. In paper we present MessageGuard, first system retrofits Web encryption designed work all websites, in browsers, platforms. We demonstrate MessageGuard operates out-of-the-box 47 Alexa top 50 sites, has minimal performance overhead, rated as highly usable by study participants.