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Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 17th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2021, Virtual Event, September 6–9, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

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Anonymous Short Communications over Social Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-90022-9_3,
        author={Francesco Buccafurri and Vincenzo De Angelis and Maria Francesca Idone and Cecilia Labrini},
        title={Anonymous Short Communications over Social Networks},
        proceedings={Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 17th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2021, Virtual Event, September 6--9, 2021, Proceedings, Part II},
        proceedings_a={SECURECOMM PART 2},
        year={2021},
        month={11},
        keywords={Privacy Anonymous communication Social networks},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-90022-9_3}
    }
    
  • Francesco Buccafurri
    Vincenzo De Angelis
    Maria Francesca Idone
    Cecilia Labrini
    Year: 2021
    Anonymous Short Communications over Social Networks
    SECURECOMM PART 2
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90022-9_3
Francesco Buccafurri1,*, Vincenzo De Angelis1, Maria Francesca Idone1, Cecilia Labrini1
  • 1: University of Reggio Calabria, Via Graziella
*Contact email: bucca@unirc.it

Abstract

Social networks nowadays attract a huge number of people and are an extraordinary platform for applications going beyond the basic mission of connecting people. In this context, anonymity of senders and recipients of messages could play an important role to protect privacy in specific cases such as proximity-based services, surveys, crowdfunding, and e-democracy, in which only short communications should be protected. As the social network provider could be semi-trusted (i.e., honest-but-curious), it could play as global passive adversary, monitoring the flow of all the messages exchanged in the social network. In this paper, we propose a new anonymous communication protocol tailored to our application context. We show that our proposal offers a good solution to the trade-off between traffic overhead and communication latency, better than the application of existing anonymous overlay routing protocols.

Keywords
Privacy Anonymous communication Social networks
Published
2021-11-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90022-9_3
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