• DocumentCode
    3122454
  • Title

    Survey of Six Myths and Oversights about Distributed Hash Tables´ Security

  • Author

    Dahan, Sylvain ; Sato, Mitsuhisa

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    22-29 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    Distributed hash tables (DHT) was not designed to be secure against malicious users. But some secure systems like trust and reputation management algorithms trust DHT with their data. Several propositions have been made to make DHTs appear secure but they fail in practice. We review some of those propositions and explain why they do not work. Our main conclusion is that DHT should not be used to create secure systems.
  • Keywords
    peer-to-peer computing; security of data; distributed hash tables; malicious users; peer-to-peer system; reputation management; system security; trust management; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer bugs; High performance computing; Information science; Information security; Laboratories; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Silver; Transaction databases;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2007. ICDCSW '07. 27th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, Ont.
  • ISSN
    1545-0678
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2838-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1545-0678
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDCSW.2007.77
  • Filename
    4279022