X2BT trusted reputation system: a robust mechanism for p2p networks

Authors:
Lan Yu;Willy Susilo;Rei Safavi-Naini
Affiliations:
Center for Information Security, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia;Center for Information Security, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia;Center for Information Security, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Venue:
CANS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cryptology and Network Security
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Over the past few years, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have grown extensively and dramatically changed large-scale file transfer. One of the most popular P2P network is the BitTorrent system. BitTorrent can efficiently distribute large files by optimizing the use of network bandwidth and providing scalability. Due to the open and anonymous nature of P2P systems BitTorrent also provides an ideal environment for distribution of malicious, low quality, or doctored information. A number of reputation systems, including P2PRep with its successors XRep and X2Rep, had been proposed to address security weaknesses of Gnutella P2P file sharing networks. Although it has been claimed that these methods are also applicable to the other file sharing networks, it is not clear how to achieve this task. Moreover, some of the shortcomings of these reputation systems such as online-polling only and cold-start may be exploited by malicious attackers. In this paper, we propose a reputation system, called X2BTRep, which is an extension of the X2Rep and for BitTorrent network. We show that the proposed system improves the security and the quality of information distributed over P2P networks.