SybilGuard: defending against sybil attacks via social networks
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pass it on: social networks stymie censors
IPTPS'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Lockr: better privacy for social networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Prometheus: user-controlled P2P social data management for socially-aware applications
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Conference on Middleware
On grappling with meta-information in the internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Musubi: disintermediated interactive social feeds for mobile devices
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Leveraging Social Feedback to Verify Online Identity Claims
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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Many existing host-based applications rely on their own authentication mechanisms and peer discovery services. Although social networking sites already provide mechanisms for users both to discover other users (e.g., by logging on to the social network Web site) and to communicate securely with each other (e.g., using instant messages within the social networking site), today's applications have no way to exploit the relationships and trust that are inherent in these networks. This paper proposes Authenticatr, a framework that allows applications to use the authentication and peer discovery mechanisms inherent in social networking sites to bootstrap their own authenticated communication channels. We describe motivating applications, detail the interface that Authenticatr exposes to applications, and discuss practical considerations and security threats.