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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2013.38B.6.473

SHRT : New Method of URL Shortening including Relative Word of Target URL  

Yoon, Soojin (고려대학교 정보보호대학원 정보보증 연구실)
Park, Jeongeun (고려대학교 정보보호대학원 정보보증 연구실)
Choi, Changkuk (고려대학교 정보보호대학원 정보보증 연구실)
Kim, Seungjoo (고려대학교 정보보호대학원 정보보증 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.38B, no.6, 2013 , pp. 473-484 More about this Journal
Abstract
Shorten URL service is the method of using short URL instead of long URL, it redirect short url to long URL. While the users of microblog increased rapidly, as the creating and usage of shorten URL is convenient, shorten url became common under the limited length of writing on microblog. E-mail, SMS and books use shorten URL well, because of its simplicity. But, there is no relativeness between the most of shorten URLs and their target URLs, user can not expect the target URL. To cover this problem, there is attempts such as changing the shorten URL service name, inserting the information of website into shorten URL, and the usage of shortcode of physical address. However, each ones has the limits, so these are the trouble of automation, relatively long address, and the narrowness of applicable targets. SHRT is complementary to the attempts, as getting the idea from the writing system of Arabic. Though the writing system of Arabic has no vowel alphabet, Arabs have no difficult to understand their writing. This paper proposes SHRT, new method of URL Shortening. SHRT makes user guess the target URL using Relative word of the lowest domain of target URL without vowels.
Keywords
URL Shortening; Usable Security; Phishing; Domain; Site Name;
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