Abstract
The necessity for peer-to-peer (p2p) communications is obvious; current centralized solutions are capturing and storing too much information from the individual people communicating with each other. Privacy concerns with a centralized solution in possession of all the users data are a difficult matter. HELIOS platform introduces a new social-media platform that is not in control of any central operator, but brings the power of possession of the data back to the users. It does not have centralized servers that store and handle receiving/sending of the messages. Instead, it relies on the current open-source solutions available in the p2p communities to propagate the messages to the wanted recipients of the data and/or messages. The p2p communications also introduce new problems in terms of privacy and tracking of the user, as the nodes part of a p2p network can see what data the other nodes provide and ask for. How the sharing of data in a p2p network can be achieved securely, taking into account the user's privacy is a question that has not been fully answered so far. We do not claim we answer this question fully in this paper either, but we propose a set of protocols to help answer one specific problem. Especially, this paper proposes how to privately share data (end-point address or other) of the user between other users, provided that they have previously connected with each other securely, either offline or online.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 27th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT |
Subtitle of host publication | FRUCT 2020 |
Editors | Sergey Balandin, Luca Turchet, Tatiana Tyutina |
Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
Pages | 150-156 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-952-69244-3-4 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-7281-6247-8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2020 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | 27th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2020: Online - Virtual, Trento, Italy Duration: 7 Sept 2020 → 9 Sept 2020 |
Publication series
Series | Conference of Open Innovation Association FRUCT |
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Volume | 27 |
ISSN | 2305-7254 |
Conference
Conference | 27th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2020 |
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Abbreviated title | FRUCT 2020 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Trento |
Period | 7/09/20 → 9/09/20 |
Funding
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the HELIOS H2020 project. HELIOS has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825585.
Keywords
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Cryptography
- Protocols
- Data privacy