NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: ReDS: Reputation for Directory Services in P2P Systems

NetS：小型：协作研究：ReDS：P2P 系统中目录服务的声誉

• 批准号: 1117866
• 负责人: Matthew Wright
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1117866&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Collaborative; Research; ReDS

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining popularity and importance for applications ranging from communications to content delivery over the Internet. Since such systems are inherently formed by a large collection of untrusted peers, their security and reliability can be adversely impacted by malicious peers in the system. In particular, P2P systems must provide a reliable decentralized directory service for locating peers with the desired content and services. If malicious peers are able to subvert directory lookups, the integrity of the system is greatly compromised. This project advances the state of the art in P2P security and reliability by applying reputation information at the directory level for improved success of subsequent lookups. The new systems will use information from successful and failed lookups, as well as the structure of the peer-to-peer system, to derive reputation information for various peers and estimate the locations of malicious nodes in the system. The project will also include an investigation into mechanisms to limit Sybil attacks, in which attackers attempt to overwhelm the system with malicious peers. The mechanisms will combine the use of social network links and the structure of the P2P system to create a robust identifier space for nodes, thus constraining how many Sybils can be introduced into the system. Through a combination of such techniques, the project will make P2P systems more trustworthy and reliable, directly impacting the millions of users who already make use of such systems today.

点对点 (P2P) 系统在从通信到互联网内容交付等各种应用中越来越受欢迎和重要。 由于此类系统本质上是由大量不可信对等点组成的，因此它们的安全性和可靠性可能会受到系统中恶意对等点的不利影响。 特别是，P2P 系统必须提供可靠的分散式目录服务，用于定位具有所需内容和服务的对等点。如果恶意对等方能够破坏目录查找，系统的完整性就会受到极大损害。该项目通过在目录级别应用信誉信息来提高后续查找的成功率，从而提高了 P2P 安全性和可靠性的最新水平。新系统将使用来自成功和失败查找的信息以及点对点系统的结构来获取各个对等点的信誉信息并估计系统中恶意节点的位置。该项目还将包括对限制 Sybil 攻击的机制的调查，在 Sybil 攻击中，攻击者试图用恶意对等点淹没系统。该机制将结合社交网络链接的使用和 P2P 系统的结构，为节点创建强大的标识符空间，从而限制可以将多少 Sybils 引入系统。通过这些技术的结合，该项目将使 P2P 系统更加值得信赖和可靠，直接影响目前已经使用此类系统的数百万用户。