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Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have gained a lot of attention from both academic and industry due to its immense potential in revolutionizing the vehicular communication industry. VANETs facilitate vehicles to share safety and non-safety information through messages. Safety information includes road accidents, natural hazards, road blocks etc. Non-safety information includes tolling information, traveler information etc. The main goal behind sharing this information is to reduce road accidents by alerting the driver about the unexpected hazards. In our algorithm social networks are used to create an active topology from all possible users in sender's profile, who are active at a particular point of time. Message authentication achieved by providing profile of user and Quick Response Code (QR code) technique. The novelty in our approach lies in the fact that, we assume no hand held device is used. This …