Anonymous communication systems in p2p network with random agent nodes

  • Authors:
  • Byung Ryong Kim;Ki Chang Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Inha Univ., Incheon, Korea;Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha Univ., Incheon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • GCC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

P2P networks provide a basic form of anonymity. The anonymity, however, breaks down at download/upload time because the IP address of the host from which the data is downloaded (or to which it is uploaded) can be known to the outside. We propose a technique to provide anonymity for both the client and the server node. A random node along the path between the client and the server node is selected as an agent node and works as a proxy: the client will see it as the server and the server looks at it as the client, hence protecting the identity of the client and the server from each other.