| 摘要 |
A method of accessing a remote resource from a data processing device, whilst maintaining privacy, includes obtaining a first Uniform Resource Locator, URL, 10 corresponding to the remote resource, obtaining secret data corresponding to the first URL, using the secret data to generate an obscured URL 12 at the data processing device, and accessing 14 the remote resource using the obscured URL. This allows the user of the device to see a first URL which is intelligible without sharing that information with the network. The obscured URL may identify the actual location of the remote resource and can be an unintelligible stream of digits or letters. Such a method may conceal sensitive information in typical URLs, e.g. observable from the folder structure of typical URLs, and/or information about the user/owner of the device, which may be hidden from e.g. cloud storage providers using the method described. A one-way hash transformation of the first URL may be performed to obtain the obscured URL, using secret data of the user of the data processing device to generate a user-specific obscured URL. The obscured URL may be used to point to a location of a key node which stores the actual resource URL at the location indicated by the obscured URL. |
