Privacy-preserving P2P data sharing with OneSwarm
Tomas Isdal, Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas E. Anderson · 2010
Privacy -- the protection of information from unauthorized disclosure -- is increasingly scarce on the Internet. The lack of privacy is particularly true for popular peer-to-peer data sharing applications such as BitTorrent where user behavior is easily monitored by third parties. Anonymizing overlays such as Tor and Freenet can improve user privacy, but only at a cost of substantially reduced performance. Most users are caught in the middle, unwilling to sacrifice either privacy or performance.