CRApr 6, 2015
A Survey of P2P Network Security
arXiv:1504.01358v126 citations
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It addresses security problems for users and developers of P2P networks, but is incremental as it is a survey.
The paper reviews security risks and vulnerabilities in peer-to-peer networks, such as data integrity issues and various attacks, and surveys existing protection mechanisms.
This paper presents a review of peer-to-peer network security. Popular for sharing of multimedia files, these networks carry risks and vulnerabilities relating to data integrity, spyware, adware, and unwanted files. Further attacks include those of forgery, pollution, repudiation, membership and Eclipse attacks, neighbor selection attacks, Sybil, DoS, and omission attacks. We review some protection mechanisms that have been devised.