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Information System for Agriculture and Food Research

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User support in evaluating the trustworthiness of websites and webshops (Internet Usage Support: InUse)

Contract period : - 2015
Total budget : 965032 Euro

The project’s objective is to increase the consumer protection in the Internet by supporting the user in judging on the trustworthiness of a webpage. This is done by automating checks that are nowadays already possible but very time-consuming and requires expert knowledge and by providing the result of this check in an understandable and transparent way. This objective is dived in three sub objectives: 1. Development of a tool to judge on the trustworthiness of a webpage and in particular of web shops and to provide feedback to the user in terms of warnings and hints to proceed. 2. Integration of the tool in a secure environment to protect the tool and the personal information including the risk profile. 3. Development of en IT security evaluation seal for webpages which can be interpreted by the tool regarding its content, validation, and authenticity.

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Coordinating institution

Department of Computer Science ()

Subprojects

State of the Art

Concept for Security Analysis

Risk Profile

Concept for Context Analysis

Evaluation Concept

Warnings, Hints, and Recommendations how to proceed

Handling False Positives and False Negatives

Anonymisation Concept

Security Analysis of the Updating Concept and Scientific Monitoring

Security Analysis Authenticity Protection of the IT Security Seal and Scientific Monitoring

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