Abstract:
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In order to access resources within a peer-to-peer
network, JXTA completely relies in the usage of advertisements
published by the resource owner. This may easily lead to DoS or
spoofing attacks from malicious peers by forging advertisements
with false identifiers unless advertisement authenticity is pro-
vided. Furthermore, in a fully distributed environment, in order
to truly isolate a malicious node, collaboration is necessary from
other peers. For that reason, it must be possible to prove to other
parties that a peer is being disruptive. This paper presents a
method that provides authenticity and non-repudiation to JXTA
advertisements. This scheme is fully distributed and based in
a pure peer-to-peer model, not requiring the arbitration of a
trusted third party or a previously established trust relationship
between peers, which is one of the main challenges under this
kind of environments. |