FlowerPot : an anonymous BitTorrent client
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Author(s)
Cohen, Jeffrey Steven
Advisor(s)
Dina Katabi.
Alternative Title
Flower Pot : an anonymous Bit Torrent client
Date Issued
2007
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis presents and analyzes FlowerPot, an anonymous client for the BitTorrent file-sharing system. FlowerPot is peer-to-peer, providing scalability and making it difficult to attack with techniques like denial-of-service. It provides anonymity to users by routing traffic through several peers before actually downloading a desired file. Each user can thus plausibly claim to have been an intermediate hop on a routing path, not the actual downloader. FlowerPot is easy to use, secure against a number of attacks, and has fast enough performance to make it practical.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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