Securing a Java P2P framework: the JXTA-overlay case

  • Authors:
  • Joan Arnedo-Moreno;Keita Matsuo;Leonard Barolli;Fatos Xhafa

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain;Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan;Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan;Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In the wake of the success of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking, security has arisen as one of its main concerns, becoming a key issue when evaluating a P2P system. Unfortunately, some systems' design focus targeted issues such as scalability or overall performance, but not security. As a result, security mechanisms must be provided at a later stage, after the system has already been designed and partially (or even fully) implemented, which may prove a cumbersome proposition. This work exposes how a security layer was provided under such circumstances for a specific Java based P2P framework: JXTA-Overlay.