Title
On key issuing privacy in distributed online social networks
Abstract
Recently, distributed online social networks (OSNs) are developed to address the security and privacy issues in centralized OSNs. Identity based cryptography (IBC) was introduced into distributed OSNs recently for better identity verification and authentication purposes. However, current IBC-based solutions in OSNs could not address the problem of secure private key issuing. In this paper we propose PEKING: a novel Pivacy Enhanced Key IssuiNG scheme for distributed online social networks using IBC. Our scheme adopts key generate center (KGC) and key privacy assistants (PAs) to issue keys to peers securely. In the scheme, PAs can be selected from users' friends. Neither KGC nor PAs can impersonate the users to obtain the private keys. Furthermore, to maintain the security of PAs, we develop a scheme to authenticate PAs using Byzantine fault tolerance protocol. The experimental results show that PEKING performs effectively and efficiently, and is able to support large scale networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/FSKD.2012.6233869
FSKD
Keywords
Field
DocType
large scale network,secure key issuing,key privacy assistants,identity based cryptography,online social networks,privacy enhanced key issuing scheme,data privacy,private key cryptography,ibc,distributed osn,computer network security,online social network,peking,security issue,fault tolerance,byzantine fault tolerance protocol,key generate center,kgc,cryptographic protocols,pa,identity authentication,social networking (online),key privacy assistant,identity verification,protocols,cryptography,privacy,authentication
Authentication,Cryptographic protocol,Computer security,Computer science,Cryptography,Network security,Byzantine fault tolerance,Fault tolerance,Information privacy,Public-key cryptography
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISBN
null
null
978-1-4673-0025-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tao Yang1105.65
Liyong Tang2233.73
Lingbo Kong3423.92
Zhong Chen450358.35