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Distributed and Self-organizing Systems
Distributed and Self-organizing Systems

PUBLICATION

Tamper-Evident User Profiles for WebID-Based Social Networks

Type

Conference Paper

Year

2014

Authors

wild

brfa

domp

riemi

gaedke

Research Area

Web Engineering

Event

14th International Conference on Web Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2014)

ISBN/ISSN

9783319082448

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Abstract

Empowering people to express themselves in global communities, social networks became almost indispensable for exchanging usergenerated content. User profiles are essential elements of social networks. They represent their members, but also disclose personal data to companies. W3C’s WebID offers an alternative to centralized social networks that aims at providing control about personal data. WebID relies on trusting the systems that host user profiles. There is a risk that attackers exploit this trust by tampering user profile data or stealing identities. In this paper, we therefore propose the IronClad approach. It improves trustworthiness by introducing tamper-evident WebID profiles. IronClad takes protective measures to publiclydiscover maliciousmanipulation of profile data. We exemplarily implement IronClad in an existing WebID identity management platform known from previous work.

Reference

Wild, Stefan; Braune, Falko; Pretzsch, Dominik; Rienäcker, Michel; Gaedke, Martin: Tamper-Evident User Profiles for WebID-Based Social Networks. Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2014), pp. 470-479, 2014.



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