Agyaat
Mutual anonymity over structured P2P networks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12420604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aameek Singh (Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Buğra Gedik (0000-0002-0622-1141, Georgia Institute of Technology), Ling Liu (0000-0001-5231-9396, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Editors | Stefanos Gritzalis (0000-0002-8037-2191) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-212 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1066-2243 • E-ISSN: 2054-5657 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1108/10662240610656519 |
| OpenAlex | W1994494983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Purpose To provide mutual anonymity over traditionally un‐anonymous Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) based Peer‐to‐Peer overlay networks, while maintaining the desired scalability and guaranteed lookup properties of the DHTs. Design/methodology/approach Agyaat uses a novel hybrid‐overlay design, a fully decentralized topology without any trusted proxies. It anonymizes both the querying and responding peers through the use of unstructured topologies, called clouds , which are added onto the structured overlays. In addition, it regulates the cloud topologies to ensure the guaranteed location of data and scalability of routing. A unique characteristic of the design is the ability of users to tradeoff between desired anonymity and performance. The paper presents a thorough performance and anonymity analysis of the system, and also analyzes few anonymity compromising attacks and countermeasures. Findings The results indicate that Agyaat is able to provide mutual anonymity while maintaining the scalability of lookups, affecting the costs only by a constant factor. Research limitations/implications While Agyaat is able to meet its mutual anonymity and performance goals, there exist other security vulnerabilities like possible Denial‐of‐Service (DoS) attacks, both due to its design and the underlying DHT overlay. This is fertile ground for future work. Originality/value Agyaat uses a novel topology architecture and associated protocols that are conducive to providing mutually anonymous services
Anonymity · Cloud computing · Computer network · Computer security · Database · Distributed computing · Distributed hash table · Network topology · Overlay network · Scalability · The Internet · World Wide Web · Caching and Content Delivery · Computer Science · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |