Attack Resistant Network Embeddings for Darknets

Darknets, connecting only devices between participants of mutual trust in the real world, rely on cooperative, precise, and attack resistant embeddings to evolve routing structures on the name space. Only precise embeddings allow for performant communication with low overhead on these networks. With Darknets being deployed in generally untrusted, even adverse environments, external or internal attacks have to be assumed commonplace. Their impact hence has to be limited and the embedding must be made resistant against even sophisticated attacks. Analysing Dark Freenet, the only current approach implementing a full Dark net, we devise simple attacks that render its embedding entirely corrupt. In response we derive a novel embedding that is based on local decisions only, and which not only is resistant to such attacks, but additionally outperforms the Dark Freenet in terms of precision.