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Building a Blockchain-Based Social Network Identification System

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2022)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 450))

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With the rise of social network service (SNS) in recent years, the security of SNS users’ private information has been a concern for the public. However, due to the anonymity of SNS, identity impersonation is hard to be detected and prevented since users are free to create an account with any name they want. Until now, there are few studies about this problem, and none of them can perfectly handle this problem. In this paper, based on an idea from previous work, we combine blockchain technology and security protocol to prevent impersonation in SNS. In our scheme, the defects of complex and duplicated operations in the previous work are improved. And the authentication work of SNS server is also adjusted in order to resist single-point attack. Moreover, the smart contract is introduced to help the whole system runs automatically. Afterward, our proposed scheme is implemented and tested on an Ethereum test network and the result suggests that it is acceptable and suitable for nowadays SNS network.

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This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (19H04107).

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan

    Zhanwen Chen & Kazumasa Omote

  2. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan

    Kazumasa Omote

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Farookh Hussain

  3. Faculty of Bussiness Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Chen, Z., Omote, K. (2022). Building a Blockchain-Based Social Network Identification System. In: Barolli, L., Hussain, F., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99587-4_39

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