Title :
Combating web plagiarism and improving internet safety by authenticating web content
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Web content plays an important role in the contemporary information economy. Even though web content is used to generate advertising revenues for authors, and serves as an important reference and knowledge discovery resource for readers, proving original authorship and preventing plagiarism are not easy on the Internet. This paper presents the design and analysis of an automatic cryptography based solution for detecting and correcting web plagiarism. Unforgeable cryptographic commitments for originally authored content are stored in a distributed hash table over-layed on enhanced web browsers. Since it is based on content authentication, this solution not only protects against web plagiarism, but also improves web safety by preventing phishing attacks based on web page copying, poisoned DNS caches, or hacked web sites.
Keywords :
Internet; computer crime; cryptography; data mining; file organisation; DNS caches; Internet safety; Web browsers; Web content authentication; Web page copying; Web plagiarism; Web safety improvement; Web sites hacking; automatic cryptography based solution; contemporary information economy; content authentication; distributed hash table; knowledge discovery resource; phishing attacks prevention; unforgeable cryptographic commitment; Authentication; Browsers; Internet; Malware; Peer to peer computing; Plagiarism; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 2010 International Conference for
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8862-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9564263-6-9
