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Unobservable Rendezvous Negotiation in P2P Networks

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Trustworthy Computing and Services (ISCTCS 2012)

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Internet has been the most popular platform for individuals to communicate and share ideas. With increasing threats against network privacy, anonymous and covert communication technology is becoming more and more important. In this paper, an unobservable rendezvous negotiation protocol is proposed based on P2P architecture, which establishes a covert channel leveraging an existing DHT to hide communicating behaviors and utilizes a tagging mechanism to ensure an indirect identification and mutual authentication. Experiments indicate that performance of the protocol is acceptable, and security analysis shows that the protocol can resist various threats.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Fanwen Xu

  2. Chinese National Engineering Laboratory for Information Security Technologies, Beijing, China

    Qingfeng Tan, Jinqiao Shi & Li Guo

  3. Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Qingfeng Tan, Jinqiao Shi & Li Guo

  4. Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Distributed Computing and Service (BUPT), Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

    Fanwen Xu

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  1. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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Xu, F., Tan, Q., Shi, J., Guo, L. (2013). Unobservable Rendezvous Negotiation in P2P Networks. In: Yuan, Y., Wu, X., Lu, Y. (eds) Trustworthy Computing and Services. ISCTCS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35795-4_48

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