Title :
Avoiding Eclipse Attacks on Kad/Kademlia: An Identity Based Approach
Author :
Fantacci, Romano ; Maccari, Leonardo ; Rosi, Matteo ; Chisci, Luigi ; Aiello, Luca Maria ; Milanesio, Marco
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettron. e Telecomun., Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy
Abstract :
Kademlia is a Distributed hash table widely used in P2P networks that has been applied to commercial and non commercial distribution of files. In this paper the authors review some security issues connected with Kademlia and a technique to leverage its security using an external certification service.
Keywords :
cryptography; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication security; Kademlia; distributed hash table; eclipse attacks; peer-to-peer networks; Application software; Certification; Communications Society; IP networks; Intrusion detection; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Robustness; Scalability; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2009. ICC '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dresden
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3435-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1938-1883
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2009.5198772
