| 摘要 |
A novel architecture for a data sharing system (DSS) is disclosed and seeks to ensure the privacy and security of users' personal information. In this type of network, a user's personally identifiable information is stored and transmitted in an encrypted form, with few exceptions. The only key with which that encrypted data can be decrypted, and thus viewed, remains in the sole possession of the user and the user's friends/contacts within the system. This arrangement ensures that a user's personally identifiable information cannot be examined by anyone other than the user or his friends/contacts. This arrangement also makes it more difficult for the web site or service hosting the DSS to exploit its users' personally identifiable information. Such a system facilitates the encryption, storage, exchange and decryption of personal, confidential and/or proprietary data. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method by a data sharing system (DSS) server, which is operably connected to a data distribution network (DDN) that includes a first client of a first user, a second client of a second user and a third client of a third user, of facilitating the private sharing of data between the first, second and third client, the method comprising:
receiving via the DDN a first obfuscated data packet (ODP) from the first client; transmitting via the DDN the first ODP, or a copy thereof, to the second client; transmitting via the DDN the first ODP, or a copy thereof, to the third client; receiving via the DDN a second ODP from the second client; transmitting via the DDN the second ODP, or a copy thereof, to the first client; transmitting via the DDN the second ODP, or a copy thereof, to the third client; receiving via the DDN a third ODP from the third client; transmitting via the DDN the third ODP, or a copy thereof, to the first client; transmitting via the DDN the third ODP, or a copy thereof, to the second client; wherein the server lacks the “value, method and/or program or portion of a program” (VMP) needed to de-obfuscate the first ODP; wherein the server lacks the VMP needed to de-obfuscate the second ODP; and wherein the server lacks the VMP needed to de-obfuscate the third ODP. |
