Davis social links: integrating social networks with internet routing

  • Authors:
  • Lerone Banks;Shaozhi Ye;Yue Huang;S. Felix Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Davis, CA;University of California, Davis, CA;University of California, Davis, CA;University of California, Davis, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Large scale attack defense
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Internet based communication systems appear in many forms from email to Instant Messenger and chat services to Voice over IP (VoIP). Common weaknesses of these current communication systems include inherent security vulnerabilities to attacks such as SPAM/SPIT/SPIM and DDoS, a lack of separation between routing address and identity, and a lack of message receiver controllability. Based on these observations, we describe preliminary ideas and analysis of a new communication architecture called DSL (Davis Social Links), which integrates the trust relationships of social networks into the internet communication infrastructure to provide receiver controllability, traceability, and global connectivity without centralized services or globally unique IDs. Although it is still in the early stages of development, we believe that DSL can help thwart many large-scale information-based attacks faced by the Internet community.