@inproceedings{14c5862226e14d1f816a82066071c00c,
title = "Attacking the Kad network",
abstract = "The Kad network, an implementation of the Kademlia DHT protocol, supports the popular eDonkey peer-to-peer file sharing network and has over 1 million concurrent nodes. We describe several attacks that exploit critical design weaknesses in Kad to allow an attacker with modest resources to cause a significant fraction of all searches to fail. We measure the cost and effectiveness of these attacks against a set of 16,000 nodes connected to the operational Kad network. We also measure the cost of previously proposed, generic DHT attacks against the Kad network and find that our attacks are much more cost effective. Finally, we introduce and evaluate simple mechanisms to significantly increase the cost of these attacks.",
keywords = "Attack, Kad, P2P, Security",
author = "Peng Wang and James Tyra and Eric, {Chan Tin} and Tyson Malchow and Kune, {Denis Foo} and Nicholas Hopper and Yongdae Kim",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1145/1460877.1460907",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781605582412",
series = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm'08",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm'08",
note = "4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm'08 ; Conference date: 22-09-2008 Through 25-09-2008",
}