JXTA anonymity through a replicated message-based approach

Abstract

JXTA is a mature set of open protocols, with more than 10 years of history, that enable the creation and deployment of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, allowing the execution of services in a distributed manner. Throughout its lifecycle, it has slowly evolved in order to appeal a broad set of different applications. Part of this evolution includes providing basic security capabilities in its protocols in order to achieve some degree of message privacy and authentication. However, under some contexts, more advanced security requirements should be met, such as anonymity. There are several methods to attain anonymity in generic P2P networks. In this paper, we propose how to adapt a replicated message-based approach to JXTA, by taking advantage of its idiosyncracies and capabilities.