DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE USING THE WEB HOSTING SERVER FOR PRIVACY PRESERVATION
Abstract: In recent years, the
number of subscribers of the social network services such as Facebook and
Twitter has increased rapidly. In accordance with the increasing popularity of
social network services, concerns about user privacy are also growing. Existing
social network services have a centralized structure that a service provider
collects all the user’s profile and logs until the end of the connection. The
information collected typically useful for commercial purposes, but may lead to
a serious user privacy violation. The user’s profile can be compromised for
malicious purposes, and even may be a tool of surveillance extremely. In this
paper, we remove a centralized structure to prevent the service provider from
collecting all users’ information indiscriminately, and present a
decentralized structure using the web hosting server. The service provider
provides only the service applications to web hosting companies, and the user
should select a web hosting company that he trusts. Thus, the user’s
information is distributed, and the user’s privacy is guaranteed from the
service provider.
Author: Yoonho Nam, Changhoon
Lee, Youngman Jung, Woongryul Jeon, Dongho Won
Journal Code: jptkomputergg130005
