About Persona
Online social networks (OSNs) are immensely popular. Users share private content,
such as personal information or photographs, using OSN applications. Users must trust
the OSN service to protect personal information even as the OSN provider benefits from
examining and sharing that information.
Persona is an OSN where users dictate who may access their information. Persona hides user
data with attribute-based encryption (ABE), allowing users to apply fine-grained policies over who
may view their data. Persona provides an effective means of creating applications in which
users, not the OSN, define policy over access to private data.
Papers
- Randy Baden, Adam Bender, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Daniel Starin
Persona: An Online Social Network with User Defined Privacy
ACM SIGCOMM 2009
[PDF]
Talk slides: [quicktime] (8MB) - iPhone benchmark
[Source] - Randy Baden, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Neil Spring
Bond Breaker: Secure In-Band Public Key Exchange on Online Social Networks
[http://bowser.cs.umd.edu/bondbreaker]
Software and Other Experiments
People
- Randy Baden (contact author)
- Adam Bender
- Neil Spring
- Bobby Bhattacharjee
- Daniel Starin
- Hailey Lin
