Abstract
The use of social networks has grown exponentially in recent years, and these social networks continue to have an ever-increasing impact on human lives. There are many concerns regarding the privacy of users in these environments, such as how trustworthy the social network operators are, in addition to the external adversaries. In this paper we propose a new architecture for online social networking, based on distributed cloud-based datacenters and using secret sharing as the method of encrypting user profile data, for enhanced privacy and availability. This proposed architecture is theoretically analyzed for its security and performance along with some experimental analysis. We show that the proposed architecture is highly secure at an acceptable level of time complexity overhead in comparison to existing online social networks, as well as the models proposed in previous studies targeting the same research problem.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Lucas, M.M., Borisov, N.: Flybynight: Mitigating the Privacy Risks of Social Networking. In: 7th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, pp. 1–8. ACM, New York (2008)
Atrey, P.K.: A Secret Sharing Based Privacy Enforcement Mechanism for Untrusted Social Networking Operators. In: 3rd International ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics and Intelligence, pp. 13–18. ACM, New York (2011)
Anderson, J., Diaz, C., Bonneau, J., Stajano, F.: Privacy-enabling Social Networking Over Untrusted Networks. In: 2nd ACM workshop on Online Social Networks, pp. 1–6. ACM, New York (2009)
Shakimov, A., Lim, H., Caceres, R., Cox, L.P., Li, K., Liu, D., Varshavsky, A.: Vis-à-Vis: Privacy-preserving Online Social Networking via Virtual Individual Servers. In: 3rd International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, pp. 1–10 (2011)
Baden, R., Bender, A., Spring, N., Bhattacharjee, B., Starin, D.: Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy. In: ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Conference on Data Communication, pp. 135–146. ACM, New York (2009)
Cutillo, L.A., Molva, R., Strufe, T.: Privacy Preserving Social Networking Through Decentralization. In: 6th International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Systems and Services, pp. 133–140. IEEE Press, New York (2009)
Shamir, A.: How to Share a Secret. Communications of the ACM 22(11), 612–613 (1979)
Alharthi, S., Atrey, P.K.: Further Improvements on Secret Image Sharing Scheme. In: 2nd ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence, pp. 53–58. ACM, New York (2010)
Atrey, P.K., Hildebrand, K., Ramanna, S.: An Efficient Method for Protection of Text Documents Using Secret Sharing. In: International Conference on Frontiers of Computer Science (2011)
Cutillo, L.A., Manulis, M., Strufe, T.: Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks. In: Furht, F. (ed.) Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications, pp. 497–522. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Senevirathna, K., Atrey, P.K. (2013). A Secure and Privacy-Aware Cloud-Based Architecture for Online Social Networks. In: Ramanna, S., Lingras, P., Sombattheera, C., Krishna, A. (eds) Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence. MIWAI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44949-9_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44949-9_21
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-44948-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-44949-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)