Safebook: A distributed privacy preserving Online Social Network

Cutillo, Leucio Antonio; Molva, Refik; Önen, Melek

doi:10.1109/wowmom.2011.5986118

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“…There have been many DOSNs proposed recently [6], [7], [8], [9]. Out of these Safebook [7], [9] addresses most of the privacy problems that exist in the centralized OSNs.…”

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An anonymous peer-to-peer based online social network

Jain

Gorantla

Saxena

2011

2011 Annual IEEE India Conference

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Online social networks (OSN) have now become one of the most widely used Internet applications with a huge base of online users. In an OSN, the users exchange their personal information via messages, pictures and videos with their online peers/friends for their personal or business interests. Since the information that flows across an OSN is generally of personal in nature, it is important that the users get the assurance that their personal information is kept private to a level that they desire. In this paper, we first analyze a distributed OSN framework called Safebook, in which the privacy of the users' information is preserved. As part of our analysis, we also suggest improvements to some of the approaches followed in Safebook in achieving its features. We then apply the techniques of threshold cryptography to Safebook for achieving reliability and onion routing for user anonymity thereby enhancing the security and performance of Safebook.

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“…There have been many DOSNs proposed recently [6], [7], [8], [9]. Out of these Safebook [7], [9] addresses most of the privacy problems that exist in the centralized OSNs.…”

Section: A Distributed Osnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Out of these Safebook [7], [9] addresses most of the privacy problems that exist in the centralized OSNs. Safebook is a peer-to-peer (P2P) based DOSN, in which a user's data is stored on his own personal systems locally or on the trusted peers' systems.…”

Section: A Distributed Osnmentioning

confidence: 99%

An anonymous peer-to-peer based online social network

Jain

Gorantla

Saxena

2011

2011 Annual IEEE India Conference

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“…Despite of their expressiveness and flexibility, implementing these policies normally requires many computing resources which are usually the bottleneck even for big companies, like Facebook and Google. Decentralized social networks (e.g., [5], [6]) have been proposed in the literature as an ideal solution to address the problem. In decentralized social networks, users can control their own data and enforce access control polices with their personal devices instead of putting the burden on the central operators' shoulder [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

Cryptographic Protocols for Enforcing Relationship-Based Access Control Policies

Pang

Zhang

2015

2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Abstract-Relationship-based access control schemes have been studied to protect users' privacy in online social networks. In this paper, we propose cryptographic protocols for decentralized social networks to enforce relationship-based access control polices, i.e., k-common friends and k-depth. Our protocols are mainly built on pairing-based cryptosystems. We prove their security under the honest but curious adversary model, and we analyze their computation and communication complexities. Furthermore, we evaluate their efficiency through simulations on a real social network dataset.

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“…Hence, the most effective solution for privacy enforcement in OSNs is to give full control to the users or to build new OSN systems more effective in protecting users privacy. Towards this goal, several solutions have been proposed: some rely on cryptographic techniques [2,5,7,25,31]; and some on new proposed systems mostly peer-to-peer based [15,21]. However, even if content is kept confidential from the prying eyes of unwanted viewers, the interactions between users may disclose sensitive information [8,28,41].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…However, even if content is kept confidential from the prying eyes of unwanted viewers, the interactions between users may disclose sensitive information [8,28,41]. Also, for peer-to-peer based solutions [15,21], the availability of information represents an concerns. Furthermore, the tradeoff of moving to a new OSN provider and lose the interaction with potentially less privacy-concern friends is high.…”

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confidence: 99%

VirtualFriendship: Hiding interactions on Online Social Networks

Beato

Conti

Preneel

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security

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The enormous popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) dramatically changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. Unfortunately, the centralized control employed by OSN providers, such as Facebook, have negative impacts as it leads to privacy concerns. In fact, OSN providers can directly access a big amount of information about users and infer further information when using data mining techniques (e.g., about the on line interactions among two users).In this paper we propose VirtualFriendship, i.e., a collaborative solution that allows OSN users to browse each others' "profile" and to exchange messages in the OSN, while the end-peers of the interactions remain anonymous with respect to the OSN provider. We demonstrate by a proof of knowledge implementation (VF-App) the feasibility of our solution. Furthermore, our analysis and thorough set of experiments also show that the overhead introduced by our solution is very limited, and we believe negligible from a user perspective.

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Safebook: A distributed privacy preserving Online Social Network

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An anonymous peer-to-peer based online social network

An anonymous peer-to-peer based online social network

Cryptographic Protocols for Enforcing Relationship-Based Access Control Policies

VirtualFriendship: Hiding interactions on Online Social Networks

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