Title :
The economics of resisting censorship
Author :
Danezis, George ; Anderson, Ross
Author_Institution :
Cambridge Univ.
Abstract :
Early peer-to-peer systems sought to resist censorship by distributing content randomly over the entire Internet. The most popular ones simply let nodes serve the resources they were most interested in. The authors offer the first model inspired by economics and conflict theory to analyze such systems´ security
Keywords :
Internet; peer-to-peer computing; security of data; social aspects of automation; Internet; censorship; economics; peer-to-peer systems; security; Binary search trees; Floods; Gaussian distribution; Information security; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Resists; Scattering; Telegraphy; Utility theory; P2P; censorship; economics; information security; peer-to-peer;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2005.29
