IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Preventing SNS Impersonation: A Blockchain-Based Approach
Summary :
With the rise of social network service (SNS) in recent years, the security of SNS users' private information has been a concern for the public. However, due to the anonymity of SNS, identity impersonation is hard to be detected and prevented since users are free to create an account with any username they want. This could lead to cybercrimes like fraud because impersonation allows malicious users to steal private information. Until now, there are few studies about this problem, and none of them can perfectly handle this problem. In this paper, based on an idea from previous work, we combine blockchain technology and security protocol to prevent impersonation in SNS. In our scheme, the defects of complex and duplicated operations in the previous work are improved. And the authentication work of SNS server is also adjusted to resist single-point, attacks. Moreover, the smart contract is introduced to help the whole system runs automatically. Afterward, our proposed scheme is implemented and tested on an Ethereum test network and the result suggests that it is acceptable and suitable for nowadays SNS network.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E106-D No.9 pp.1354-1363
- Publication Date
- 2023/09/01
- Publicized
- 2023/05/30
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2022ICP0003
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information and Communication System Security)
- Category
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Zhanwen CHEN
University of Tsukuba
Kazumasa OMOTE
University of Tsukuba,National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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Zhanwen CHEN, Kazumasa OMOTE, "Preventing SNS Impersonation: A Blockchain-Based Approach" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E106-D, no. 9, pp. 1354-1363, September 2023, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2022ICP0003.
Abstract: With the rise of social network service (SNS) in recent years, the security of SNS users' private information has been a concern for the public. However, due to the anonymity of SNS, identity impersonation is hard to be detected and prevented since users are free to create an account with any username they want. This could lead to cybercrimes like fraud because impersonation allows malicious users to steal private information. Until now, there are few studies about this problem, and none of them can perfectly handle this problem. In this paper, based on an idea from previous work, we combine blockchain technology and security protocol to prevent impersonation in SNS. In our scheme, the defects of complex and duplicated operations in the previous work are improved. And the authentication work of SNS server is also adjusted to resist single-point, attacks. Moreover, the smart contract is introduced to help the whole system runs automatically. Afterward, our proposed scheme is implemented and tested on an Ethereum test network and the result suggests that it is acceptable and suitable for nowadays SNS network.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.2022ICP0003/_p
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