Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks have gained popularity due to their
robustness, cost advantage, network efficiency and openness. Unfortunately, the same …

We study a natural and potentially devastating attack against BitTorrent, namely, attacking
the initial seed in a torrent's early stages. The goal of this attack is to diminish the seed's …

In the recent past, anti-P2P companies have successfully curtailed the distribution of
targeted content over a number of P2P file-sharing systems, including Kazaa and eDonkey …

This work presents a systematic study of the problem of protecting general proximity privacy,
with findings applicable to most existing data models. Our contributions are multi-folded: we …

BitTorrent continues to comprise the largest fraction of Internet traffic. While significant
progress has been made in understanding the BitTorrent choking mechanism, its security …

BitTorrent is a file sharing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) application that has achieved great popularity,
becoming a de facto standard for swapping files in the Internet. To achieve such popularity …

Bit Torrent is arguably the most prevalent file sharing protocol on the Internet. In Bit Torrent
swarms, seeds usually offer file chunks for free and thus induce free-riding behavior. Some …

Both copyright infringements and information leaks using P2P file sharing software are
becoming big social issues. There are a lot of P2P file sharing software products, and …

Active measurement studies show that the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing protocol Bit
Torrent is highly under attack. Moreover, malicious peers can easily exploit the original …

This proceeding deals with various attacks and exploitations P2P networks have to cope
with. In the last few years BitTorrent became famous for spreading big amounts of data to …