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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Main Authors: Chien-Sheng Chen, Ting-Yuan Yeh, Chin-Tan Lee, Chyuan-Der Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/792407

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