From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs
Date: Tuesday February 6, 19101 @ 13:03
Author: fen
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Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi
View this module: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs
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Update of /usr/local/cvs/public/openprivacy/htdocs
In directory giga:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs
Modified Files:
index.shtml
Added Files:
platform.shtml
Log Message:
moved platform from index into it's own file
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/platform.shtml
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CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/platform.shtml?annotate=1.1
CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/platform.shtml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
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CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?annotate=1.15
CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml.diff?r1=1.15&r2=1.14
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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.14 openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.15
--- openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.14 Wed Dec 13 17:17:54 2000
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml Tue Feb 6 13:03:22 2001
@@ -24,94 +24,6 @@
on the Internet.
See the <a href="/projects/jetspeek.shtml">JetsPeek project</a> for details.
-<h3>Platform</h3>
-
-<h4>Secure, Privacy-enhanced Reputation Facility</h4>
-
-Reputations are the cornerstone to any virtual community. OpenPrivacy
-enables reputations to be used to enhance searching as well as to filter out
-unwanted information, all while maintaining complete user privacy. In
-addition, the reputation substrate supports the user to:
-
-<ul>
- <li>accumulate valuable <i>reputation capital</i> for shared profile
- information, ideas and publications without needing to divulge identity
- <li>annotate any object with machine-readable opinions (grafts), thus
- creating a general purpose and secure reputation facility
- <li>enable opt-in profile/reputation owner contact by third parties
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Open Source with Open APIs</h4>
-
-OpenPrivacy is an open source platform with published XML data formats and
-APIs that provide mechanisms to:
-
-<ul>
- <li>monitor and verify proper use of personal information
- <li>post unauthenticated (heresy) profile information anonymously
- <li>authenticate (through opt-in verification) profile segments
- <li>most importantly, enable complete user control over her profile,
- including providing the ability for the user to be able to
- disassociate herself from any particular segment of profile
- information at any time
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Safety and Trust</h4>
-<ul>
- <li><i>The user is in control</i> - the user maintains at all times
- complete control over her data, or more specifically, her
- <i>connection</i> to the data. If she wishes to disassociate from
- data or some agent who has access to her data, she may do so with
- absolute completeness.
- <li><i>Transparency</i> - the user should at all times be able to see how,
- where, when and by whom their profile information is being used.
- While this transparency does not apply to data one does not own,
- an important side benefit is that the system is publicly auditable.
- <li><i>Strong cryptography</i> will be utilized throughout the system for
- purposes of
- <ul>
- <li>authentication of active entities as well as data
- <li>privacy and security - encryption only allows authorized
- entities access to your profile
- <li>traceable - when an offer is received, the user can determine
- exactly how and why
- <li>non-repudiation - agents may be held accountable for their
- actions
- <li>reputation accrual - profile data, agents and even reputations
- may accrue context and time-sensitive reputation data
- </ul>
- <li><i>No lawyers</i> - since the contracts and privacy are guaranteed
- cryptographically, the need for lawyers to enforce contracts is
- diminished to near zero
- <li><i>Open</i> - since all the workings are open source and the design
- is available for public review, the trustworthiness quotient of the
- OpenPrivacy platform will be high
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Fully Distributed</h4>
-OpenPrivacy will create a networked peer-to-peer platform enabling <i>Open
-Privacy Providers</i>. This platform will provide:
-<ul>
- <li>storage, unique naming, indexing and retrieval mechanisms for
- profiles. (Note that this is a business opportunity in itself!)
- <li>privacy - a user's identity cannot be determined from their profile
- information
- <li>security - a user can determine how their profile is to be used,
- explicitly permitting some uses and denying others
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Standards based</h4>
-OpenPrivacy builds on standards being used throughout the Internet, including
-<ul>
- <li>XML - all communications and objects are represented in XML
- <li>XMLDsig - the XML Digital Signature standard is used as the base of
- the Profile/Reputation OBject (PROB)
- <li>SOAP - the Simple Object Access Protocol is used for inter-agent
- communications
- <li>HTTP and SMTP over TCP/IP - all communications are designed to work
- over existing standard protocols
-</ul>
-
<h3>Longer Term Goals</h3>
<h4>Direct User Benefits of OpenPrivacy-enabled Systems</h4>
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