Resisting Attrition Attacks on a Peer-to-Peer System
TJ Giuli, Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker, David I. Rosenthal, Mema Roussopoulos · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2004
Peer-to-peer systems are vulnerable to attrition attacks that include both traditional, network-level denial of ser-vice attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers ’ resources. We describe a set of defenses for the LOCKSS digi-tal preservation system that help ensure that application-level attacks even from powerful adversaries are less ef-fective than network-level attacks, and that network-level attacks must be intense, wide-spread, and prolonged to impair the system. 1