A Network Registration Model with Hidden Real Name

Abstract

The openness and anonymity of Internet allow people joining in without identity validation, resulting in a trustless environment and bringing about many security problems, such as privacy exposure, rumor spreading, deception and social panic making. The root of these problems is that users use pseudonyms instead of their real identities, thus they take no responsibility to their misbehaviors. To solve the problems and build a more credible environment, real name policy is promoted in some countries. Although the real name policy can provide strong assurance to users’ real identities, but as a compelled governmental law, it suffers difficulty in promotion and even worse, may lead to the disaster of large-scale leaking of real name information. In this paper, we provide a novel real name validation model. The key of our model is that users are validated by their friends and their real name information is kept by their friends. In the way, the server is free to the burden of storing privacy information and the real name is hidden to the server and other users. We test our model with real data and get inspiring results. Keywords-real name; network registration; model;