APSON: Anonymous and Private SOcial Network

10.6138/JIT.2017.18.7.20170704

Kai Dong；Taolin Guo；Zhen Ling；Ming Yang；Wenjia Wu

Social network ； Anonymity ； Privacy ； Profile matching ； Attribute based encryption

網際網路技術學刊

18卷7期（2017 / 12 / 01）

1543 - 1551

英文

In recent years, user privacy in online social networks has become an important issue. Existing researches use anonymity techniques to preserve privacy. However traditional anonymity techniques do not support profile matching, thus have limitations in providing services which are based on social network topologies. This means that anonymous users cannot establish relationship or connect with friends if such techniques are used. This paper proposes an anonymous social network framework, which implements profile matching while still allows users to remain anonymous.