Anonymization Techniques for URLs and Filenames

摘要: Investigating the behavior of computer and network systems often involves collecting analyzing traces user activity. Because are expensive to store collect, because it is desirable replicate experimental results, common publish trace data for use by other researchers. To maintain privacy users, usually anonymized before publication. We discuss prior methods anonymizing such traces, including weaknesses drawbacks in those methods. then present a new method that can anonymize strings as URLs while preserving maximum amount information useful