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TKDE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
P2P Reputation Management Using Distributed Identities and Decentralized Recommendation Chains
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are vulnerable to peers who cheat, propagate malicious code, leech on the network, or simply do not cooperate. The traditional security techniques de...
Prashant Dewan, Partha Dasgupta
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Sybil Attacks Against Mobile Users: Friends and Foes to the Rescue
—Collaborative applications for co-located mobile users can be severely disrupted by a sybil attack to the point of being unusable. Existing decentralized defences have largely b...
Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes
FC
2008
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack
Sybil attacks have been shown to be unpreventable except under the protection of a vigilant central authority. We use an economic analysis to show quantitatively that some applicat...
N. Boris Margolin, Brian Neil Levine
AIMS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of Sybil Attacks Protection Schemes in KAD
In this paper, we assess the protection mechanisms entered into recent clients to fight against the Sybil attack in KAD, a widely deployed Distributed Hash Table. We study three m...
Thibault Cholez, Isabelle Chrisment, Olivier Festo...
EUROPKI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Trustworthy Accounting for Wireless LAN Sharing Communities
Abstract. The Peer-to-Peer Wireless Network Confederation (P2PWNC) is designed to be an open self-organizing Wireless LAN (WLAN) roaming association where users from one WLAN can a...
Elias C. Efstathiou, George C. Polyzos
WOWMOM
2006
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
An RSSI-based Scheme for Sybil Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— A sybil node impersonates other nodes by broadcasting messages with multiple node identifiers (ID). In contrast to existing solutions which are based on sharing encryp...
Murat Demirbas, Youngwhan Song
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
SybilGuard: defending against sybil attacks via social networks
Peer-to-peer and other decentralized, distributed systems are known to be particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks. In a sybil attack, a malicious user obtains multiple fake ident...
Haifeng Yu, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...
FC
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Informant: Detecting Sybils Using Incentives
We propose an economic approach to Sybil attack detection. In our Informant protocol, a detective offers a reward for Sybils to reveal themselves. The detective accepts from one i...
N. Boris Margolin, Brian Neil Levine
ISCC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A sybilproof distributed identity management for P2P networks
Structured P2P networks are vulnerable to the sybil attack. In this attack, a misbehaving person generates a huge number of node identifiers and possibly chooses some of them in ...
François Lesueur, Ludovic Mé, Val&ea...
P2P
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
SyMon: Defending large structured P2P systems against Sybil Attack
Sybil attack is one of the most challenging problems that plague current decentralized Peer-to-Peer systems. In Sybil attack, a single malicious user creates multiple peer identit...
B. S. Jyothi, D. Janakiram