Magic Mantle using Social VPNs against Centralized Social Networking Services
Magic Mantle using Social VPNs against Centralized Social Networking Services
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Magic Mantle 使用社交 VPN 对抗集中式社交网络服务
DOI：
10.1109/pst.2016.7906984
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2016
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and Akira Sato
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作者：
Yasushi Shinjo;Naoki Kainuma;Daiyuu Nobori;and Akira Sato
由于集中式社交网络服务（sns）或在线社交网络（osn）存在固有的隐私问题，研究人员正在研究去中心化社交网络作为解决这些问题的替代方案。然而，中心化sns的所有功能都很难去中心化。本文描述了一种使用社交虚拟专用网（vpn）与集中式SNS协同工作的去中心化SNS。在这种去中心化的SNS中，成员可以通过社交vpn与朋友分享私人信息，而将信息隐藏在中心化的SNS中。SNS会员在个人电脑上运行应用程序和服务器，允许朋友访问这些服务器的内容，并完全控制自己的数据。被称为集线器用户的社区领导成员运行VPN服务器并维护组成员列表。其他普通会员可以使用Web浏览器轻松操作VPN客户端。提出的分散式SNS将VPN服务器的用户认证与集中式SNS的用户认证联合起来。此外，SNS还为在封闭VPN上运行的社交Web应用程序提供了零登录功能。为了实现这样一个社交VPN，作者扩展了SoftEther VPN，他们的快速开源VPN软件。实验结果表明，包括文件共享、文本聊天、Wiki程序、互动游戏和类似usenet的消息传递在内的应用程序在当前高速互联网接入线路上使用社交VPN时表现良好。
As centralized social networking services (SNSs) or online social networks (OSNs) have inherent privacy concerns, researchers are working on decentralized SNSs as alternatives for addressing these problems. However, it is very difficult to decentralize all the functions of centralized SNSs. This paper describes a decentralized SNS using social virtual private networks (VPNs) that work together with centralized SNSs. In this decentralized SNS, members can share private information with friends through the social VPNs while hiding the information from centralized SNSs. SNS members run applications and servers on their PCs, allow friends to access the contents of these servers, and have complete control of their own data. Community leader members called hub users run VPN servers and maintain group member lists. Other regular members manipulate the VPN clients easily using Web browsers. The proposed decentralized SNS federates the user authentication of the VPN servers with that of centralized SNSs. Furthermore, the SNS provides a zero sign-on feature for social Web applications running on a closed VPN. For realizing such a social VPN, the authors have extended SoftEther VPN, their fast, open-source VPN software. Experimental results show that applications including file sharing, a text chat, a Wiki program, an interactive game, and Usenet-like messaging performed well using the social VPN over a current fast Internet access line.