Application of Fault-Tolerant Mechanism to Reduce Pollution Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Networks
File pollution is a recent security threat to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems. By disseminating numerous polluted files with mismatched or partially tampered contents in the P2P system, the attacker causes users to download unexpected files. This attack is aimed at frustrating users and maki...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-07-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/792407 |