Inadvertent File Sharing Over Peer-to-Peer Networks: How it Endangers Citizens and Jeopardizes National Security, Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Sydnor
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
House Committee ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Sharing

2011 ◽  
pp. 28-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choon Hoong Ding ◽  
Sarana Nutanong ◽  
Rajkumar Buyya
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
P2p Computing ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
Network Topologies ◽  
Broad Overview

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are popularly used as “file swapping” networks to support distributed content sharing. A number of P2P networks for file sharing have been developed and deployed. Napster, Gnutella, and Fasttrack are three popular P2P systems. This chapter presents a broad overview of P2P computing and focuses on content sharing networks and technologies. It also emphasizes on the analysis of network topologies used in popular P2P systems. In addition, this chapter also identifies and describes architecture models and compares various characteristics of four P2P systems—Napster, Gnutella, Fasttrack, and OpenFT.

scholarly journals Building a secure and legal file sharing system using JXTA platform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Abdel Hafeez
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
Internet Traffic ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Monthly Basis ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Digital Certificates ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
File Sharing System ◽  
Legal Technology

File sharing is one of the most popular applications in peer-to-peer networks where there is no control over what the peer can download or upload. This explains why file sharing got a high percentage of the overall internet traffic. Although file sharing is a legal technology, many users use it to share copyrighted materials and that's why many applications have been sued and shut down. In this thesis we will build a secure and legal file sharing system using Java bindings of JXTA protocols. The application security is derived from using digital certificates signed by a server peer who acts like a certificate authority (CA), all communications are encrypted using these digital certificates. The legal side is derived from the fact that each peer has a tokens account that will be updated and signed by the server peer only. The downloading peer has to pay some tokens for downloading a file to the uploading peer who then contacts the server peer to credit its commission from that payment. The server peer is the only one who can cash those payments to make the system forgery protected. The interaction between peers and the server peer could be on monthly basis so peers can download and upload files easliy and without the presence of the server. At the end we analyzed the security aspects and show how the implementation deals with most known peer-to-peer threats.

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