Whanau: A Sybil-Proof Distributed Hash Table
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Kaashoek, M. Frans
Lesniewski-Laas, Christopher Tur
Date Issued
April 2010
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7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2010
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USENIX Association
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Lesniewski-Laas, Christopher and M. Frans Kaashoek. "Whānau: A Sybil-proof Distributed Hash Table." 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2010, April 28-30, 2010, San Jose, Calif.
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Abstract
Whānau is a novel routing protocol for distributed
hash tables (DHTs) that is efficient and strongly resistant
to the Sybil attack. Whānau uses the social connections
between users to build routing tables that enable
Sybil-resistant lookups. The number of Sybils in the social
network does not affect the protocol’s performance,
but links between honest users and Sybils do.When there
are n well-connected honest nodes, Whānau can tolerate
up to O(n/ log n) such “attack edges”. This means that
an adversary must convince a large fraction of the honest
users to make a social connection with the adversary’s
Sybils before any lookups will fail.
Whānau uses ideas from structured DHTs to build
routing tables that contain O([sqrt]n log n) entries per node.
It introduces the idea of layered identifiers to counter
clustering attacks, a class of Sybil attacks challenging for
previous DHTs to handle. Using the constructed tables,
lookups provably take constant time. Simulation results,
using social network graphs from LiveJournal, Flickr,
YouTube, and DBLP, confirm the analytic results. Experimental
results on PlanetLab confirm that the protocol
can handle modest churn.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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