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A Survey of DHT Security Techniques
Authors: Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen.
Source: ACM Computing Surveys, 43(2), June 2011.
Abstract
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Peer-to-peer networks based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs)
have received considerable attention ever since their
introduction in 2001. Unfortunately, DHT-based systems have
shown to be notoriously difficult to protect against security
attacks. Various reports have been published that discuss or
classify general security issues, but so far a comprehensive
survey describing the various proposed defenses has been
lacking. In this paper, we present an overview of techniques
reported in the literature for making DHT-based systems
resistant to the three most important attacks that can be
launched by malicious nodes participating in the DHT: (1) the
Sybil attack, (2) the Eclipse attack, and (3) routing and
storage attacks. We review the advantages and disadvantages of
the proposed solutions and in doing so, confirm how difficult it
is to secure DHT-based systems in an adversarial environment.
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Keywords
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Peer-to-peer systems, Distributed Hash Tables, Sybil attack,
Eclipse attack, Secure P2P routing and storage.
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@Article{,
author = {Guido Urdaneta and Guillaume Pierre
and Maarten van Steen},
title = {A Survey of {DHT} Security Techniques},
journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
year = {2011},
volume = {43},
number = {2},
month = jun,
note = {\url{http://www.globule.org/publi/SDST_acmcs2009.html}}
}
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gpierre@cs.vu.nl
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