A Study of Securing Peers Inter-Communication in P2P Networks
Zhen Chen · Microelectronics & Computer · 2004
Secure communication is a key issue in commercial P2P applications. It is required that Peers in P2P network inter-authenticate to each other and establish secure tunnels between them to ensure the data confidentiality and integrity when in transit. This paper discusses the Securing communication requirements of P2P applications, and proposes three tunneling techniques to secure P2P applications communication; then, introduces some powerful P2P developing tools and discusses how to add security functionalities to old insecure P2P applications. At last, this paper does a comprehensive evaluation of the above three secure tunneling techniques.