Attrition Defenses for a Peer-to-Peer Digital Preservation System
Cryptography and Security
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
In peer-to-peer systems, attrition attacks include both traditional, network-level denial of service attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers' resources. We describe several defenses for LOCKSS, a peer-to-peer digital preservation system, that help ensure that application-level attacks even from powerful adversaries are less effective than simple network-level attacks, and that network-level attacks must be intense, wide-spread, and prolonged to impair the system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0405111,
title = {Attrition Defenses for a Peer-to-Peer Digital Preservation System},
author = {T. J. Giuli and Petros Maniatis and Mary Baker and David S. H. Rosenthal and Mema Roussopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0405111},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 8 figures. version 2: Reworked the paper according to reviews. Expanded the evaluation section with experiments with more AUs