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Fourth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'04)
Information Leak in the Chord Lookup Protocol
Z?rich, Switzerland
August 25-August 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2156-8
Charles W. O'Donnell, Massachussets Institute of Technology
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Massachussets Institute of Technology
In Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, it is often essential that connected systems (nodes) relay messages which did not originate locally, on to the greater network. As a result, an intermediate node might be able to determine a large amount of information about the system, such as the querying tendencies of other nodes. This represents an inherent security issue in P2P networks. Therefore, we ask the following question: Through the observation of the network traffic in a P2P network, what kind of information can an adversarial node learn about another node in the same network ? In this paper, we study this question in the case of a specific P2P system - Chord [10]. We also study the effects of the parameters of Chord (such as finger-table size) and the various enhancements to Chord (such as location caching and data caching) on the amount of information leaked.
Citation:
Charles W. O'Donnell, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, "Information Leak in the Chord Lookup Protocol," p2p, pp.28-35, Fourth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'04), 2004
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