Networks without user observability
Computers and Security
Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance
PODC '87 Proceedings of the sixth annual ACM Symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Building secure and reliable network applications
Building secure and reliable network applications
CesiumSpray: a Precise and Accurate Global Time Servicefor Large-scale Systems
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part III
Crowds: anonymity for Web transactions
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Consistent, yet anonymous, Web access with LPWA
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A protocol for anonymous communication over the Internet
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
Communications of the ACM
Analysis of the evolution of peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Tarzan: a peer-to-peer anonymizing network layer
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Peer-to-Peer Membership Management for Gossip-Based Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Introducing MorphMix: peer-to-peer based anonymous Internet usage with collusion detection
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
Mapping the Gnutella Network: Macroscopic Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
The power of epidemics: robust communication for large-scale distributed systems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The Eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in P2P networks
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
SNDSS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (SNDSS '96)
P5: A Protocol for Scalable Anonymous Communication
SP '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol
SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Making gnutella-like P2P systems scalable
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Responder Anonymity and Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
ICNP '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols
Identity Crisis: Anonymity vs. Reputation in P2P Systems
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer file-sharing workload
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Receiver anonymity via incomparable public keys
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Analyzing peer-to-peer traffic across large networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TAP: A Novel Tunneling Approach for Anonymity in Structured P2P Systems
ICPP '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Evaluation of gossip to build scalable and reliable multicast protocols
Performance Evaluation - Special issue: Distributed systems performance
The peer sampling service: experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
Correctness of a gossip based membership protocol
Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
MuON: Epidemic Based Mutual Anonymity
ICNP '05 Proceedings of the 13TH IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Incentives to Promote Availability in Peer-to-Peer Anonymity Systems
ICNP '05 Proceedings of the 13TH IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Peer counting and sampling in overlay networks: random walk methods
Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Tor: the second-generation onion router
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
PET'02 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Dummy traffic against long term intersection attacks
PET'02 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Cost-effective broadcast for fully decentralized peer-to-peer networks
Computer Communications
Anonymous connections and onion routing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Low-cost and reliable mutual anonymity protocols in peer-to-peer networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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A mutual anonymity system enables communication between a client and a service provider without revealing their identities. In general, the anonymity guarantees made by the protocol are enhanced when a large number of participants are recruited into the anonymity system. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are able to attract a large number of nodes and hence are highly suitable for anonymity systems. However, the churn (changes in system membership) within P2P networks, poses a significant challenge for low-bandwidth reliable anonymous communication in these networks. This paper presents MuON, a protocol to achieve mutual anonymity in unstructured P2P networks. MuON leverages epidemic-style data dissemination to deal with churn. Simulation results and security analysis indicate that MuON provides mutual anonymity in networks with high churn, while maintaining predictable latencies, high reliability, and low communication overhead.