Go-Sharing: A Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Social Network Photo Sharing

Zhang, M; Sun, Z; Li, H; Niu, B; Li, F; Zhang, Z; Xie, Y; Zheng, C

Go-Sharing: A Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Social Network Photo Sharing

Zhang, M Sun, Z Li, H Niu, B Li, F Zhang, Z Xie, Y Zheng, C

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Publisher:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023, 20, (5), pp. 3572-3587
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Zhang, M
dc.contributor.author	Sun, Z
dc.contributor.author	Li, H
dc.contributor.author	Niu, B
dc.contributor.author	Li, F
dc.contributor.author	Zhang, Z
dc.contributor.author	Xie, Y
dc.contributor.author	Zheng, C
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-06T19:52:44Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-06T19:52:44Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023, 20, (5), pp. 3572-3587
dc.identifier.issn	1545-5971
dc.identifier.issn	1941-0018
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dc.description.abstract	The evolution of social media has led to a trend of posting daily photos on online Social Network Platforms (SNPs). The privacy of online photos is often protected carefully by security mechanisms. However, these mechanisms will lose effectiveness when someone spreads the photos to other platforms. In this paper, we propose Go-sharing, a blockchain-based privacy-preserving framework that provides powerful dissemination control for cross-SNP photo sharing. In contrast to security mechanisms running separately in centralized servers that do not trust each other, our framework achieves consistent consensus on photo dissemination control through carefully designed smart contract-based protocols. We use these protocols to create platform-free dissemination trees for every image, providing users with complete sharing control and privacy protection. Considering the possible privacy conflicts between owners and subsequent re-posters in cross-SNP sharing, we design a dynamic privacy policy generation algorithm that maximizes the flexibility of re-posters without violating formers' privacy. Moreover, Go-sharing also provides robust photo ownership identification mechanisms to avoid illegal reprinting. It introduces a random noise black box in a two-stage separable deep learning process to improve robustness against unpredictable manipulations. Through extensive real-world simulations, the results demonstrate the capability and effectiveness of the framework across a number of performance metrics.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TDSC.2022.3208934
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dc.subject	0803 Computer Software, 0804 Data Format, 0805 Distributed Computing
dc.subject.classification	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
dc.subject.classification	4604 Cybersecurity and privacy
dc.subject.classification	4606 Distributed computing and systems software
dc.title	Go-Sharing: A Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Social Network Photo Sharing
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pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
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The evolution of social media has led to a trend of posting daily photos on online Social Network Platforms (SNPs). The privacy of online photos is often protected carefully by security mechanisms. However, these mechanisms will lose effectiveness when someone spreads the photos to other platforms. In this paper, we propose Go-sharing, a blockchain-based privacy-preserving framework that provides powerful dissemination control for cross-SNP photo sharing. In contrast to security mechanisms running separately in centralized servers that do not trust each other, our framework achieves consistent consensus on photo dissemination control through carefully designed smart contract-based protocols. We use these protocols to create platform-free dissemination trees for every image, providing users with complete sharing control and privacy protection. Considering the possible privacy conflicts between owners and subsequent re-posters in cross-SNP sharing, we design a dynamic privacy policy generation algorithm that maximizes the flexibility of re-posters without violating formers' privacy. Moreover, Go-sharing also provides robust photo ownership identification mechanisms to avoid illegal reprinting. It introduces a random noise black box in a two-stage separable deep learning process to improve robustness against unpredictable manipulations. Through extensive real-world simulations, the results demonstrate the capability and effectiveness of the framework across a number of performance metrics.

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