Exploiting KAD: Possible uses and misuses

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 65-69

  Steiner, Moritz ^a   En Najjary, Taoufik ^a   Biersack, Ernst W ^a  

^a EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed hash table; Peer to peer system; Sybil attack

Indexed keywords

BIT TORRENTS; DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE; FAST TRACKS; FILE SHARING; PEER TO PEER; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM; PEER-TO-PEER TRAFFIC; SYBIL ATTACK;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876244094     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1290168.1290176     Document Type: Article

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