FOCI '14 - ReClaim: a Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Social Network

ReClaim: a Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Social Network

Niels Zeilemaker and Johan Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology

The privacy concerns associated with the popularity of online social networks have given rise to numerous research papers which focus on either storing the data in encrypted form, or decentralizing the network. However, without the incentive of being able to read private data, a centralized system cannot be sustained. A decentralized network does not rely on such incentives and can continue to operate based solely …

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