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Gary PaoliniCS333 Final Project12/01/13privateness Preserving Location Tracking of Lost or Stolen Devices Cryptographic Techniques and Replacing trust Third Parties with DHTsBy(Thomas Ristenpart, Gabriel Maganis, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tadayoshi Kohno)IntroductionWe tackle the problem of building secretiveness-preservingdevice-tracking schemasor private methods to assist inthe determiney of lost or stolen Internet-connected quickdevices. This system is for the privacy of internet user and finding the location of the sprightly device should it become lost or stolen.The main goals of such systems be seeminglycontradictory to hide the devices legitimately-visitedlocations from ternary-party services and some other parties (locationprivacy) while simultaneously using those sameservices to help recover the devices location(s) after itgoes missing (device-tracking). We propose a system,named Adeona, that all the same meets both goals.Itprovides strong guarantees of location pr ivacy while preservingthe ability to expeditiously track missing devices.The system Adeona allows the user to have browsing privacy and also the ability to track a missing device.We build a version of Adeona that uses OpenDHT as thethird party service, resulting in an immediately deployablesystem that does not rely on any single trusted thirdparty. The system uses Open DHT which is a third party service which gives a immediately deployable systemWe describe numerous extensions for the basic designthat make up Adeonas suitability for particular deploymentenvironments.With numerous extensions for the design to increase deployment environments cater a 1-2 page summary for each of the papers.What is the ... ...y and privacy, but one stand doso in practice for real systems.We implemented Adeona, a full privacy-preservingtracking system based on OpenDHT that allows for immediate,community-orientated deployment. Its coremodule, the cryptographic engine that renders locationupdates anon ymous and unlinkable, can be easily utilise infurther deployment settings. To evaluate Adeona, we rana field trial to develop experience with a deployment on realusers systems. Our finish is that our approach issound and an immediately viable alternative to trackingsystems that invite less (or no) privacy guarantees. Lastly,we also presented numerous extensions to Adeona thataddress a wrap of issues disparate deployment settings,increased functionality, and improved security. The techniquesinvolved, particularly our tamper-evident FSPRG,are likely of self-reliant interest.