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An energy efficient privacy-preserving content sharing scheme in mobile social networks

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The rising popularity of mobile social media enables personalization of various content sharing and subscribing services. These two types of services entail serious privacy concerns not only to the confidentiality of shared content, but also to the privacy of end users such as their identities, interests and social relationships. Previous works established on the attribute-based encryption (ABE) can provide fine-grained access control of content. However, practical privacy-preserving content sharing in mobile social networks either incurs great risk of information leaking to unauthorized third parties or suffers from high energy consumption for decrypting privacy-preserving content. Motivated by these issues, this paper proposes a publish–subscribe system with secure proxy decryption (PSSPD) in mobile social networks. First, an effective self-contained privacy-preserving access control method is introduced to protect the confidentiality of the content and the credentials of users. This method is based on ciphertext-policy ABE and public-key encryption with keyword search. After that, a secure proxy decryption mechanism is proposed to reduce the heavy burdens of energy consumption on performing ciphertext decryption at end users. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and privacy preservation effectiveness of PSSPD.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partly supported by the NSF under Grant Nos. 1252292, National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61502116, 61370084 and 61370217, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. HEUCF100605, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDA06040100, and Research fund of the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No. 20132302120045.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA

    Zaobo He, Zhipeng Cai & Yingshu Li

  2. College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Qilong Han

  3. Department of Computer Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30460, USA

    Weitian Tong

  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of IOT Information Security Technology, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China

    Limin Sun

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He, Z., Cai, Z., Han, Q. et al. An energy efficient privacy-preserving content sharing scheme in mobile social networks. Pers Ubiquit Comput 20, 833–846 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0952-6

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