Information Flow in the Peer-Reviewing Process
Backes, M.
Diirmuth, M.
Unruh, D.
Saarland Univ., Saarbrucken;
This paper appears in: Security and Privacy, 2007. SP '07. IEEE Symposium on
Publication Date: 20-23 May 2007
On page(s): 187-191
Location: Berkeley, CA,
ISSN: 1081-6011
ISBN: 0-7695-2848-1
INSPEC Accession Number: 10286354
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SP.2007.24
Current Version Published: 2007-06-04
Abstract
We investigate a new type of information flow in the electronic publishing process. We show that the use of PostScript in this process introduces serious confidentiality issues. In particular, we explain how the reviewer's anonymity in the peer-reviewing process can be compromised by maliciously prepared PostScript documents. A demonstration of this attack is available. We briefly discuss how this attack can be extended to other document formats as well.
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