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Securing anonymity in P2P network

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Byung Ryong Kim,

Yoo Sung KimAuthors Info & Claims

sOc-EUSAI '05: Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies

Pages 231 - 234

https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107606

Published: 12 October 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Basically flooding-based P2P systems provide anonymity and thus it is not possible to find the initial sender of packet and the designated receiver of that packet. However it does not provide anonymity where the IP addresses of nodes uploading and downloading contents are revealed. So in order to maintain anonymity we propose and test our techniques that the receiver node of response packets on retrieval query is agent node and the agent node provides contents service between server and client. Through the proposed techniques it was found that the identity of node is secured without using encryption techniques which have been deployed in the former anonymity protection techniques and control data communications through all the nodes located between server and client. The application of this concept of which result was evaluated may be extended to many other current P2P systems under operation.

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Chothia T(2007)Securing pseudo identities in an anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing network2007 Third International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks and the Workshops - SecureComm 200710.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550344(279-282)Online publication date: Sep-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550344
Eap THatala MGasevic D(2007)Enabling User Control with Personal Identity ManagementIEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007)10.1109/SCC.2007.56(60-67)Online publication date: Jul-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCC.2007.56

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sOc-EUSAI '05: Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies

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316 pages

ISBN:1595933042

DOI:10.1145/1107548

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Chothia T(2007)Securing pseudo identities in an anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing network2007 Third International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks and the Workshops - SecureComm 200710.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550344(279-282)Online publication date: Sep-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/SECCOM.2007.4550344
Eap THatala MGasevic D(2007)Enabling User Control with Personal Identity ManagementIEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007)10.1109/SCC.2007.56(60-67)Online publication date: Jul-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCC.2007.56

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