• DocumentCode
    1231959
  • Title

    The economics of resisting censorship

  • Author

    Danezis, George ; Anderson, Ross

  • Author_Institution
    Cambridge Univ.
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    45
  • Lastpage
    50
  • Abstract
    Early peer-to-peer systems sought to resist censorship by distributing content randomly over the entire Internet. The most popular ones simply let nodes serve the resources they were most interested in. The authors offer the first model inspired by economics and conflict theory to analyze such systems´ security
  • Keywords
    Internet; peer-to-peer computing; security of data; social aspects of automation; Internet; censorship; economics; peer-to-peer systems; security; Binary search trees; Floods; Gaussian distribution; Information security; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Resists; Scattering; Telegraphy; Utility theory; P2P; censorship; economics; information security; peer-to-peer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2005.29
  • Filename
    1392699