A Mutual Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Protocol Design

Author

Han, Jinsong ; Liu, Yunhao ; Xiao, Li ; Renyi Xiao ; Ni, Lionel M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., China

fYear

2005

fDate

04-08 April 2005

Abstract

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has become a popular application model because of its easy resource sharing pattern and powerful query search scheme. However, decentralized P2P architecture is scarcely seen to deploy the anonymity on its peers. In this paper, we propose a mutual anonymity protocol, called Secret-sharing-based Mutual Anonymity Protocol (SSMP), for decentralized P2P systems. SSMP employs Shamirs´ secret sharing scheme to allow peers to issue queries and responders to deliver requested files anonymously. Compared with pre-vious designs, SSMP achieves mutual anonymity in P2P systems with a high degree of anonymity and a low cryptography processing overhead. We evaluate SSMP by comprehensive simulations.

Keywords

Internet; data privacy; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; security of data; telecommunication security; Internet; Secret-sharing-based Mutual Anonymity Protocol design; cryptography; data privacy; decentralized P2P architecture; peer-to-peer computing; Computer science; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Privacy; Scalability; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2312-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2005.49

Filename

1419892