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Newscast is a model for information dissemination and membership management in large-scale, agent-based distributed systems. It deploys a simple, peer-to-peer data exchange protocol. The Newscast protocol forms an overlay network and keeps it connected by means of an epidemic algorithm, thus featuring a complex, spatially structured, and dynamically changing environment. It has recently become very popular due to its inherent resilience to node volatility as it exhibits strong self-healing properties. In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the data flow within the Newscast model against a set of vulnerabilities that have not been taken into account in previous analysis. In particular, we perform an attack based on a cache content corruption which is able to defeat the protocol by breaking the network connectivity. Concrete experiments are performed using a framework that implements both the protocol and the corruption model considered in this work.
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Muszyński, J., Varrette, S., Laredo, J.L.J., Bouvry, P. (2014). Analysis of the Data Flow in the Newscast Protocol for Possible Vulnerabilities. In: Kotulski, Z., Księżopolski, B., Mazur, K. (eds) Cryptography and Security Systems. CSS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44893-9_8
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