Real-world sybil attacks in BitTorrent mainline DHT
Liang Wang,Jussi Kangasharju +1 more
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This paper considers two kinds of attacks on a DHT, one already known attack and one new kind of an attack, and shows how they can be targeted against Mainline DHT and proposes simple countermeasures against them.Abstract:
Distributed hash tables (DHT) are a key building block for modern P2P content-distribution system, for example in implementing the distributed tracker of BitTorrent Mainline DHT. DHTs, due to their fully distributed nature, are known to be vulnerable to certain kinds of attacks and different kinds of defenses have been proposed against these attacks. In this paper, we consider two kinds of attacks on a DHT, one already known attack and one new kind of an attack, and show how they can be targeted against Mainline DHT. We complement them by an extensive measurement study using honeypots which shows that both attacks have been going on for a long time in the network and are still happening. We present numbers showing that the number of sybils in the Mainline DHT network is increasing and is currently around 300,000. We analyze the potential threats from these attacks and propose simple countermeasures against them.read more
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