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AnonyTrust: An Anonymous Trust Authentication System for Pervasive Social Networking

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Pervasive social networking (PSN) is facilitating and enriching people’s life at any time and in any place. One of the most important issues in PSN is its security and privacy, since users hope their privacy not to be disclosed in social activities. Trust relationship plays a crucial role in the PSN system, and can be utilized to support trustworthy PSN system with anonymous authentication. Thus, this paper proposes an anonymous trust authentication (AnonyTrust) scheme that can simultaneously authenticate identities and trust levels of users with privacy preservation. It also can achieve conditional traceability with a trusted server (TS), and can switch online and offline states with multiple authorized access points (APs). The security analysis and performance evaluation show the scheme is secure and efficient regarding security, anonymity, computational complexity, and communication cost. To verify the feasibility of the proposed scheme, a lightweight secret chat application called AnonyChat is developed in practice. The results show AnonyChat performs well and efficiently in Android devices.

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Acknowledgment

The work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61672410 and 61802293, the Academy of Finland under Grants 308087 and 314203, the Key Lab of Information Network Security, Ministry of Public Security under grant No. C18614, the open grant of the Tactical Data Link Lab of the 20th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, P.R. China under grant CLDL-20182119, the Shaanxi Innovation Team project under grant 2018TD-007, and the 111 project under grant B16037.

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    Pu Wang, Limei He, Zheng Yan & Wei Feng

  2. Aalto University, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Zheng Yan

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Wang, P., He, L., Yan, Z., Feng, W. (2020). AnonyTrust: An Anonymous Trust Authentication System for Pervasive Social Networking. In: Yu, S., Mueller, P., Qian, J. (eds) Security and Privacy in Digital Economy. SPDE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1268. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9129-7_44

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