Survey of Six Myths and Oversights about Distributed Hash Tables' Security

Authors:
Sylvain Dahan;Mitsuhisa Sato
Affiliations:
University of Tsukuba, Japan;University of Tsukuba, Japan
Venue:
ICDCSW '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) was not designed to be secure against malicious users. But some secure systems like trust and reputation management algorithms trustDHTwith their data. Several propositions have been made to make DHTs appear secure but they fail in practice. We review some of those propositions and explain why they do not work. Our main conclusion is that DHT should not be used to create secure systems.