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SpotShare and nearbyPeople: applications of the Social PaL framework

Published: 22 June 2015 Publication History

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Imagine if there is a privacy-preserving mechanism for two mobile devices to determine if their owners have common friends. It can be useful for access control in applications like ride-sharing, sharing Internet access or even just a simple "people radar" app for showing nearby friends and friends-of-friends. Current mechanisms for doing this come at the cost of revealing these interactions and the users' locations to central servers. In a paper that appears in the WiSec 2015 proceedings, we describe Social Pal [2], a framework that allows privacy-preserving discovery of the distance between two users in a social network. Social Pal was implemented as a general purpose software framework that can be easily used by application developers who wish to incorporate such functionality into their applications.

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[1]
T. Kärkkäinen, M. Pitkänen, P. Houghton, and J. Ott. SCAMPI Application Platform. In CHANTS, 2012.
[2]
M. Nagy, T. Bui, E. D. Cristofaro, N. Asokan, J. Ott, and A. Sadeghi. How Far Removed Are You? Scalable Privacy-Preserving Estimation of Social Path Length with Social PaL. In Proceedings of WiSec 2015. ACM Press, June 2015.

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WiSec '15: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
June 2015
256 pages
ISBN:9781450336239
DOI:10.1145/2766498
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Published: 22 June 2015

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