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Dina Katabi.
Cohen, Jeffrey Steven
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2008-05-19T16:05:28Z
2008-05-19T16:05:28Z
2007
2007
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41651
219718639
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).
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.
by Jeffrey Steven Cohen.
M.Eng.
72 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
FlowerPot : an anonymous BitTorrent client
Flower Pot : an anonymous Bit Torrent client
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