On the security and feasibility of safebook : A distributed privacy-preserving online social network

Cutillo, Leucio Antonio; Molva, refik; Strufe, Thorsten
Keynote paper at 5th IFIP WG/PrimeLife International Summer School, September 9-11, 2009, Nice, France / Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 320)

Safebook tackles the security and privacy problems of online social networks. It puts a special emphasis on the privacy of users with respect to the application provider and provides defenses against intruders or malicious users. In order to assure privacy in the face of potential violations by the provider, Safebook is designed in a decentralized architecture. It relies on the cooperation among the independent parties that represent the users of the online social network at the same time. Safebook addresses the problem of building secure and privacy-preserving data storage and communication mechanisms in a peer-to-peer system by leveraging trust relationships akin to social networks in real life. This paper resumes the contributions of [7,9,8], and extends the first performance and security evaluation of Safebook.


DOI
Type:
Conférence
City:
Nice
Date:
2009-09-07
Department:
Sécurité numérique
Eurecom Ref:
5459
Copyright:
© Springer. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in Keynote paper at 5th IFIP WG/PrimeLife International Summer School, September 9-11, 2009, Nice, France / Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 320) and is available at : http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14282-6_7

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