A Survey of P2P Network Security

TL;DR

This survey reviews security challenges and protection mechanisms in peer-to-peer networks, highlighting vulnerabilities like data integrity issues, various attacks, and existing defense strategies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of P2P network security threats and summarizes current protection mechanisms, offering a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners.

Findings

Identifies key vulnerabilities in P2P networks.

Summarizes existing defense mechanisms.

Highlights the need for improved security solutions.

Abstract

This paper presents a review of peer-to-peer network security. Popular for sharing of multimedia files, these networks carry risks and vulnerabilities relating to data integrity, spyware, adware, and unwanted files. Further attacks include those of forgery, pollution, repudiation, membership and Eclipse attacks, neighbor selection attacks, Sybil, DoS, and omission attacks. We review some protection mechanisms that have been devised.