Title :
Survey of Six Myths and Oversights about Distributed Hash Tables´ Security
Author :
Dahan, Sylvain ; Sato, Mitsuhisa
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
Abstract :
Distributed hash tables (DHT) was not designed to be secure against malicious users. But some secure systems like trust and reputation management algorithms trust DHT with their data. Several propositions have been made to make DHTs appear secure but they fail in practice. We review some of those propositions and explain why they do not work. Our main conclusion is that DHT should not be used to create secure systems.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; security of data; distributed hash tables; malicious users; peer-to-peer system; reputation management; system security; trust management; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer bugs; High performance computing; Information science; Information security; Laboratories; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Silver; Transaction databases;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2007. ICDCSW '07. 27th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2838-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1545-0678
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCSW.2007.77
