----- Forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- From: alain@allegra.tempo.att.com (Alain Mayer) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.crypt.research Subject: Demo of new personalized web "Anonymizer" Date: 11 Jun 1997 17:49:02 -0700 Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Message-ID: <5nnh1u$djk@joseph.cs.berkeley.edu> Hi! We are Bell Labs researches currently experimenting with a new tool that helps you easily create and use consistent unique personal identities at web sites that provide personalized services. LPWA (Lucent Personalized Web Assistant) creates these unique identities on demand. LPWA supports these features: - Privacy: Your true identity remains unknown to the web-sites. When a web-site asks you to provide a username, password, or e-mail address, you instead enter '\u', '\p', or '\@', and the LPWA proxy submits to the web-site an alias-username, an alias-password, or an alias-e-mail address. LPWA computes a different, but consistent, alias for you for each web-site. - Convenience: Because LPWA computes your alias identity for you, you do not need to invent and remember multiple usernames and passwords. Instead, you only need to remember and protect one secret ("universal password"). You provide your secret to the proxy, along with your e-mail address, exactly once during a browsing session, after that you browse the web transparently. Check http://lpwa.com/ to see how to use LPWA. To obtain more information about LPWA, see http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/ Pointers to personalized web-sites, where you can open and maintain accounts, are given in http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/background.html#personalized Please note that this project has not yet been publicy announced and that documentation and code are currently being revised. Also, the current (temporary) set-up, where you have to connect to LPWA over an insecure connection is not "optimal" (to say the least, but all in all much better than if you browse the "usual way"). Hence, we are really looking for "friendly users" at this time whose feedback will help us to make improvements. Regards, Alain Mayer ----- End of forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- Groet, -- Alex de Joode usura@zedz.com | ZedZ InterNET Laboratories | http://www.zedz.net