Survey on Profile Privacy and Communication Security in Social Network

Vina M. Lomte, Harshal Bhosale

Abstract: There are many social networks developed who serve connection between two or more people. Such social networks also help to find matching profiles within certain area. Using social networks for communication has some challenging task like protecting user information or profile. In this paper, a mechanisms has been discussed, in which user gives some preferences and the matching profile based on those preferences is searched in the distributed social network. The mechanism is to have secure communication channel between the requester and matching profiles at the time when a matching profile is found based on preferences given by requester. In this mechanism a secure communication is established so that the requester and matched profiles cannot cheat on each other or they cannot pretend to be matched. The extensive survey has concluded that such mechanisms are very effective and secure in social networks.

Keywords: preserving profile matching, secure communication