Title
Privacy Preserving Network Analysis Of Distributed Social Networks
Abstract
Social network analysis as a technique has been applied to a diverse set of fields, including, organizational behavior, sociology, economics and biology. However, for sensitive networks such as hate networks, trust networks and sexual networks, these techniques have been sparsely used. This is majorly attributed to the unavailability of network data. Anonymization is the most commonly used technique for performing privacy preserving network analysis. The process involves the presence of a trusted third party, who is aware of the complete network, and releases a sanitized version of it. In this paper, we propose an alternative, in which, the desired analysis can be performed by the parties who distributedly hold the network, such that: (a) no central third party is required; (b) the topology of the underlying network is kept hidden. We design multiparty protocols for securely performing few of the commonly studied social network analysis algorithms, which include degree distribution, closeness centrality, PageRank algorithm and K-shell decomposition algorithm. The designed protocols are proven to be secure in the presence of an arithmetic black-box extended with comparison, equality and modulo operations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-49806-5_18
INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social network analysis, Secure multiparty computation, Centrality measures
Internet privacy,Trusted third party,Secure multi-party computation,Social network,Computer security,Computer science,Social network analysis,Centrality,Computer network,Degree distribution,Network analysis,Privacy software
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10063
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Varsha Bhat Kukkala132.78
Jaspal Singh Saini254.58
S.S. Iyengar32923381.93