Survey of anonymity and authentication in P2P networks

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1165-1171

  Wang, Xiaoliang ^a,b   Yang, Lincong ^a   Sun, Xingming ^a   Han, Jinsong ^c   Liang, Wei ^a   Huang, Lihong ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Authentication; P2P; Traceability

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ANONYMITY; P2P NETWORK; P2P SYSTEM; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM; TRACEABILITY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 77954507696     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2010.1165.1171     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Akleylek, S., L. Emmungil and U. Nuriyev, 2005. A modified algorithm for peer-to-peer security. Proceedings of the System and Control Theory Workshop, (SCTW'05), Azerbaijan National Acad. Science, Gebze, Turkey, pp: 258-264.
2. Bangerter, E., J. Camenisch, A. Lysyanskaya, M. Blaze and B. Crispo et at, 2006. A Cryptographic Framework for the Controlled Release of Certified Data. Springer Verlag, Cambridge, UK., pp: 20-50.
3. Bansod, N., A. Malgi, B.K. Choi and J. Mayo, 2008. MuON: Epidemic based mutual anonymity in unstructured P2P networks. Comput. Networks, 52: 915-934.
4. Belenky, A. and N. Ansari, 2003. IP traceback with deterministic packet marking. Commun. Lett. IEEE, 7: 162-164.
5. Burch, H. and B. Cheswick, 2000. Tracing anonymous packets to their approximate source. Proceedings of the 14th Systems Administration Conference (USENIX LISA 2000), Dec. 3-8, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA., pp: 319-327.
6. Chang, C.C., C.Y. Linand, K.C. Lin, 2007. Simple efficient mutual anonymity protocols for peer-to-peer network based on primitive roots. J. Network Comput. Appl., 30: 662-676.
7. Chaum, D. and E.V. Heyst, 1991. Group Signatures. In: Advances in Cryptology-EURO CRYPT '91, Davies, D.W. (Ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540-54620-7, pp: 257-265.
8. Chaum, D., 1983. Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments, Advances in Cryptology-Crypto '82. Springer-Verlag, Santa Barbara, CA, USA., pp: 199-203.
9. Chen, R., W. Guo, L. Tang, J. Hu and Z. Chen, 2008. Scalable byzantine fault tolerant public key authentication for peer-to-peer networks. Proceedings of the 14th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Aug. 26-29, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp: 601-610.
10. Cheng, B.C., H. Chen and G.T. Liao, 2008. FBT: An efficient traceback scheme in hierarchical wireless sensor network. Security Commun. Networks, 2: 133-144.
11. Dong, J., C. Tan and Y. Zhang, 2008. A Reputation Evaluation Method in P2P Anonymous Environment. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, pp: 1516-1521.
12. Freedman, M.J. and R. Morris, 2002. Tarzan: A peer-to-peer anonymizing network layer. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Nov. 18-22, Association for Computing Machinery, Washington, DC, USA., pp: 193-206.
13. Gong, C. and K.I.P. Sarac, 2005. Traceback Based on Packet Marking and Logging. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Seoul, Korea, pp: 1043-1047.
14. Han, J. and Y. Liu, 2006. Rumor Riding: Anonymizing Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems. IEEE Computer Society, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, pp: 22-31.
15. Han, J. and Y. Liu, 2008. Mutual anonymity for mobile P2P systems. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst, 19: 1009-1019.
16. Han, J., Y. Liu, L. Lu, L. Hu and A. Paul, 2005. A Random Walk Based Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Protocol Design. In: Networking and Mobile Computing, Lu, X. andW. Ahao(Eds.).LNCS., 3619, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, ISBN-13: 978-3-540-28102-3, pp: 143-152. (Pubitemid 41435753)
17. Han, J., Y. Liu, L. Xiao, R. Xiao and L. M. Ni, 2005. A mutual anonymous peer-to-peer protocol design. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 04-08, IEEE Computer Society, Denver, Colorado, USA., pp: 68-77.
18. Han, J., Z. Yanmin, L. Yunhao, C. Jianfeng and H.J. Lei, 2005. Provide privacy for mobile P2P systems. Proceedings of the 1 st International Workshop on Mobility in Peer-to-Peer Systems. June 6-10, IEEE Computer Society, Ohio, USA., pp: 829-834.
19. Hao, L.M., S.T. Yang, S.N. Lu and G.L. Chen, 2008. Trusted computing-based reputation scheme with anonymity in P2P systems. Shanghai Jiaotong Daxue Xuebao/J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., 42: 165-168.
20. Huang, H. and Z. Cao, 2009. A novel and efficient unlinkable secret handshakes scheme. IEEE Commun. Lett., 13: 363-365.
21. Ji, W., S. Yang,D. Wei and W. Lu, 2007. GARM: AGroup-Anonymity Reputation Model in Peer-to-Peer System. Institute of Electronic and Electronic Engineering Computer Society, Urumchi, Xinjiang, China, pp: 481-488.
22. Jin, X., Y. Zhang, Y. Pan and Y. Zhou, 2006. ZSBT: A novel algorithm for tracing DoS attackers in MANETs. Eurasip J. Wireless Commun. Network., 2006: 9-9
23. Kamvar, S.D., M. T. Schlosser andH. Garcia-Molina, 2003. The eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in p2p networks. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, ACM, New York, USA.,pp: 640-651.
24. Lai-Cheng, C, 2008. Heightening security of P2P networks by neighborhood key method. Proceedings of the 1 st International Conference on Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems, Nov. 1-3, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Computer Society, Wuhan, China, pp: 201-204.
25. Lamport, L., 1983. Weak byzantine generals problem. J. ACM, 30: 668-676.
26. Lee, S., R. Sherwood and B. Bhattacharjee, 2003. Cooperative peer groups in NICE. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April, 2003, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.,pp: 1272-1282.
27. Lee, Y.K., S.W. Han, S.J. Lee, B.H. Chung and D.G. Lee, 2009. Anonymous Authentication System using Group Signature. IEEE Computer Society, Fukuoka, Japan, pp: 1235-1239.
28. Li, D.Q., P.R. Su and D.G. Feng, 2004. Notes on packet marking for IP traceback. Ruan Jian Xue Bao/J. Software, 15: 250-258.
29. Li, Z., X. Sun, B. Wang and X. Wang, 2008. A steganography scheme in P2P network. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Aug. 15-17, Harbin, China, pp: 20-24.
30. Liu, J.K., P.P. Tsang, D.S. Wong and R.W. Zhu, 2006. Universal Custodian-Hiding Verifiable Encryption for Discrete Logarithms. Springer Verlag, Seoul, Korea, pp: 389-409.
31. Lu, L., J. Han, Y. Liu, L. Hu, J.P. Huai, L. Ni and J. Ma, 2008. Pseudo trust: Zero-knowledge authentication in anonymous P2Ps. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst, 19: 1325-1337.
32. Lu, T., B. Fang, Y. Sun and X. Cheng, 2004. WonGoo: A peer-to-peer protocol for anonymous communication. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 21-24, CSREA Press, Las Vegas, NV, United States, pp: 1102-1106.
33. Lua, E.K., 2007. Securing peer-to-peer overlay networks from Sybil attack. Proceedings of International Symposium on Communication and Information Technology, Oct. 17-19, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, pp: 1213-1218.
34. Narasimha, M., G. Tsudik and J.H. Yi, 2003. On the utility of distributed cryptography in P2P and MANETs: The case of membership control. Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Nov. 04-07, TEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA.,pp: 336-345.
35. Nguyen, L. and R. Safavi-Naini, 2005. Dynamic K-Times Anonymous Authentication. Springer Verlag, New York, United States, pp: 318-333.
36. Park, K. and H. Lee, 2001. On the Effectiveness of Probabilistic Packet Marking for IP Traceback Under Denial of Service Attack. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Anchorage, AK, United States, pp: 338-347.
37. Reiter, M.K. and A.D. Rubin, 1998. Crowds: Anonymity for Web transaction. ACM TISSEC, 1: 66-92.
38. Rennhard, M. and B. Plattner, 2002. Introducing MorphMix: Peer-to-peer based anonymous internet usage with collusion detection. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Nov. 21, Association for Computing Machinery, Washington, DC, USA., pp: 91-102.
39. Ronald, L. R., S. Adi and T. Yael, 2001. How to leak a secret. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security: Advances in Cryptology, (ICTACISAC'Ol), Springer-Verlag, pp: 552-565.
40. Savage, S., D. Wetherall, A. Karlin and T. Anderson, 2000. Practical network support for IP traceback. Comput. Commun. Rev., 30: 295-306.
41. Scarlata, V., B.N. Levine and C. Shields, 2001. Responder anonymity and anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network Protocols, Nov .11-14, Riverside, CA, United states, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, pp: 272-280.
42. Sherwood, R., B. Bhattacharjee and A. Srinivasan, 2002. P5: A protocol for scalable anonymous communication. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, (CSSRSP'02), Berkeley, CA, United States, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp: 58-70.
43. Shitrit, S., E. Felstame, N. Gilboa and O. Hermom, 2008. Anonymity Scheme for Interactive P2P Services. Institute of Electronic and Electronic Engineering Computer Society, Lyon, France, pp: 33-40.
44. Snoeren, A.C., C. Partridge and L.A. Sanchez, 2001. Hash-based IP traceback. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures and Protocols for Computer Communication, Aug. 27-31, San Diego, California, USA., pp: 3-14.
45. Song, D.X.D. and A. Perrig, 2001. Advanced and authenticated marking schemes for IP traceback. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Joint Conference on IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, April 22-26, Anchorage, Alaska, USA., pp: 878-886.
46. Stadler, M., J.M. Piveteau and J. Camenisch, 1995. Fair blind signatures. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques, 1995, Saint-Malo, France, Springer-Verlag GmbH and Company KG, pp: 209-219.
47. Stone, R., 2000. Centertrack: An IP overlay network for tracking DoS floods. Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA.,pp: 107-118.
48. Su, R., 2009. On the security of a novel and efficient unlinkable secret handshakes scheme. IEEE Commun. Lett., 13: 712-713.
49. Suriadi, S., E. Foo and J. Smith, 2008. A User-Centric Protocol for Conditional Anonymity Revocation. Springer Verlag, Turin, Italy, pp: 185-194.
50. Syverson, P.F., 1998. Anonymous connections and onion routing. IEEE J. Selected Areas Commun., 16: 482-494.
51. Takeda, A., D. Chakraborty, G. Kitagata, K. Hashimoto and N. Shiratori, 2008. A new scalable distributed authentication for P2P network and its performance evaluation. WSEAS Trans. Comput, 7: 1628-1637.
52. Teranishi, I. and K. Sako, 2006. K-Times Anonymous Authentication with a Constant Proving Cost. United States, Springer Verlag, New York, pp: 525-542.
53. Wang, X. and X. Sun, 2009. Fair blind signature based authentication for super peer P2P network. Inform. Technol. J., 8: 887-894.
54. Wang, X., X. Sun, G. Sun andL. Dond, 2010. CST: P2P anonymous authentication system based on collaboration signature. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology, May 21-23, IEEE Computer Society, Busan, Korea, pp: 1-7.
55. Wei, Y. and Y. He, 2009. A Pseudonym Changing-Based Anonymity Protocol for P2P Reputation Systems. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Wuhan, Hubei, China, pp: 975-980.
56. Wierzbicki, A., A. Zwierko and Z. Kotulski, 2005. Authentication with Controlled Anonymity in P2P Systems. In: Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies. Dalian, China, 2005. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA., ISBN:0-7695-2405-2, pp: 871-875.
57. Wu, H., C. Shi, H. Chen and C. Gao, 2008. A Trust Management Model for P2P File Sharing Systems. Institute of Electronic and Electronic Engineering Computer Society, Busan, Korea, pp: 41-44.
58. Ye, F., H. Yang and Z. Liu, 2007. Catching Moles in Sensor Networks. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
59. Zhang, M.W., B. Yang, S.L. Zhu and W.Z. Zhang, 2008. Efficient secret authenticatable anonymous signcryption scheme with identity privacy. Proceedings of the Pacific Asian Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, June 17, Taipei, Taiwan, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp: 126-137.
60. Zhu, B., S. Setia and S. Jajodia, 2006. Providing Witness Anonymity in Peer-to-Peer Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Alexandria, VA, United States, pp: 6-16