| Article |
| Type of Publication |
| Exploiting KAD: Possible Uses and Misuses |
| Title |
|
Ernst W. Biersack
Taoufik En-Najjary
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| Authors |
| Computer Communication Review 37 (5), October 2007 |
| Published in |
| Peer-to-peer systems have seen a tremendous
growth in the last few years and peer-to-peer traffic makes a
major fraction of the total traffic seen in the Internet. The
dominating application for peerto- peer is file sharing. Some of
the most popular peer-to-peer systems for file sharing have been
Napster, FastTrack, BitTorrent, and eDonkey, each one counting a
million or more users at their peak time. We got interested in
KAD, since it is the only DHT that has been part of very popular
peer-to-peer system with several million simultaneous users. As
we have been studying KAD over the course of the last 18 months
we have been both, fascinated and frightened by the possibilities
KAD offers. Mounting a Sybil attack is very easy in KAD and
allows to compromise the privacy of KAD users, to compromise the
correct operation of the key lookup, and to mount DDOS with very
little resources. In this paper, we will relate some of our
findings and point out how KAD can be used and
misused. |
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