Evaluating a Peer-to-peer Storage System in Presence of Malicious Peers

Samira Chaou (1) , Gil Utard (1) , Franck Pommereau (2)

1 UbiStorage
2 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes

We present a peer-to-peer based storage system and evaluate its resistance in the presence of malicious peers. To do so, we resort to simulation of the actual code borrowed from the production system. Our analysis allows to identify the main threats, prioritise them and propose directions for mitigating the attacks.

Keywords: Cryptographic protocols; security; storage; peer-to-peer; simulation

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Modeling and Simulation; Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Samira Chaou, Gil Utard, Franck Pommereau. Evaluating a Peer-to-peer Storage System in Presence of Malicious Peers. International Conférence on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2011), Jul 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. pp.419--426, ⟨10.1109/HPCSim.2011.5999855⟩. ⟨hal-00669179⟩