DocumentCode :
2795197
Title :
Why are they hiding? Study of an anonymous file sharing system
Author :
Cunche, Mathieu ; Kaafar, Mohamed Ali ; Jiefeng Chen ; Boreli, Roksana ; Mahanti, Anirban
Author_Institution :
Nat. ICT Australia, Australia
fYear :
2012
fDate :
2-5 Oct. 2012
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
This paper characterizes a recently proposed anonymous file sharing system, OneSwarm. This characterisation is based on measurement of several aspects of the OneSwarm system such as the nature of the shared and searched content and the geolocation and number of users. Our findings indicate that, as opposed to common belief, there is no significant difference in downloaded content between this system and the classical BitTorrent ecosystem. We also found that a majority of users appears to be located in countries where anti-piracy laws have been recently adopted and enforced (France, Sweden and U.S). Finally, we evaluate the level of privacy provided by OneSwarm, and show that, although the system has strong overall privacy, a collusion attack could potentially identify content providers.
Keywords :
data privacy; peer-to-peer computing; OneSwarm; anonymous file sharing system; antipiracy law; content provider; privacy level; searched content; shared content; user geolocation; Bridges; Communities; Ecosystems; Monitoring; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; Servers;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Satellite Telecommunications (ESTEL), 2012 IEEE First AESS European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4687-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4686-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ESTEL.2012.6400205
Filename :
6400205
Link To Document :
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