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Tracking User Activity While Safeguarding Data From Attackers, Justin Dahmubed

Master's Projects

Companies constantly look for ways to better understand customer activity on their websites. Website owners may want to be able to analyze customer activity without having to concern themselves with a government agency forcing them to reveal their information. Multiple analytical tools have been created, most notably Google Analytics.

In my thesis, I demonstrate how analytics data can be stored so that only the site owners can view the data about their customers. With my design, even the analytics site itself cannot decrypt the data after a given window of time has elapsed. The novel aspect of my design is …