LPPRS: New Location Privacy-Preserving Schemes Based on Ring Signature over Mobile Social Networks
Published in 16th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2020), Guangzhou, China, 2020
Recommended citation: Cailing Cai, Tsz Hon Yuen, Handong Cui, Mingli Wu, and Siu-Ming Yiu. “LPPRS: New Location Privacy-Preserving Schemes Based on Ring Signature over Mobile Social Networks.” In Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12612, pp. 288–303, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71852-7_19
This paper proposes location privacy-preserving schemes based on ring signatures for mobile social networks. It introduces an application for finding nearby friends based on points of interest while protecting users’ identities, locations, and queries without requiring a fully trusted third party.