The 44th IPP Symposium
Google Belay: Secure Web Sharing
Joe Gibbs Politz, Brown University
How many passwords do you use on the web? How many web sites do you use them with? Have you ever had tried to manage two accounts with the same web site? Do you know what the "share this story" links on news articles really do?
Belay is a research project out of Google that is asking and answering these questions in collaboration with Brown students. It is tackling issues of secure and understandable sharing of web content, managing relationships with multiple sites, and giving users better control of their data online. This talk will discuss some of the motivations and technologies behind Belay, and demo a prototype system.
Joe Gibbs Politz is a 3rd year PhD candidate at Brown studying web security with the Brown PLT group. He interned at Google in 2011 with the Belay team, where he will return to continue the project in 2012. The material in the talk is joint work with Arjun Guha, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Ulfar Erlingsson, and Mark Lentczner.
