Enabling fine-tuned relationship and privacy in social networks

Abstract

In this article, we suggest a mechanism to ease privacy management in social networks. This mechanism is based on a relationship model which renders the asymmetry and the diversity of real-life relationships between peers. This model defines attributes that are used in an attribute-based encryption system which protects both user information and exchanged data within the social network. This project is currently a work in progress and the ideas developed here will be confirmed during an extensive implementation and testing phase.