Mobile social networks are a new trend to improve the quality of our life, so they should not bring any extra burden to users. The users should not anymore be worried how to set up a secure complex password and memorize it to prove their identities. The Generic Bootstrapping Architecture is used in this thesis as a novel way of authentication. The GBA protocol allows to generate and share cryptographic keys between a mobile phone and third party service providers using the operator as intermediary. These keys are generated transparently without any user interaction. In a traditional mobile social network, an Internet connection is compulsory but we believe this should not be a barrier in the future. An ad-hoc network may be used to communicate in a private group of friends. Thus, users need to be capable of verifying membership assertions and generating offline invitations for new friends without a connection to the social network server. Our implementation uses SAML assertions to certify group memberships and offline invitations. Beside these security solutions, a real mobile social network has been implemented, using the REST framework for communication and databases for storing information both on the client and the social network server. / Social Wireless Network Secure Identification
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ri-23684 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Wu, Yucheng |
| Publisher | Social Wireless Network Secure Identification, http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-189243 |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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