Robust random number generation for peer-to-peer systems

  • Authors:
  • Baruch Awerbuch;Christian Scheideler

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;Institute for Computer Science, TU Munich, Garching, Germany

  • Venue:
  • OPODIS'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider the problem of designing an efficient and robust distributed random number generator for peer-to-peer systems that is easy to implement and works even if all communication channels are public. A robust random number generator is crucial for avoiding adversarial join-leave attacks on peer-to-peer overlay networks. We show that our new generator together with a light-weight rule recently proposed in [4] for keeping peers well-distributed can keep various structured overlay networks in a robust state even under a constant fraction of adversarial peers.