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Are man-in-the-middle attacks against p2p systems realistic?
I'm implementing a DHT based on Kademlia following this paper.
The protocol described in this paper uses nonces to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks. The disadvantage is that latency gets ...
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How does pfsense block torrent traffic?
I know that pfsense is a very effective tool for restricting bit torrent traffic. I was wondering how it actually manages to do that ? There's not much information available on this. The more ...
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Repudiation in Copyright Infringement (BitTorrent)
Seeing this question : How did an alleged illegal downloading be detected? sparked a question I have had for a long time.
How does repudiation/non-repudiation work in such cases ?
Argument: It is ...
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How does the Copyright Alert System work? Who has implemented it?
Some ISPs are participating in a Copyright Alert System that notifies content authors of violations of their copyright.
I'm concerned how this oversight relates to my private traffic, and what laws ...
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Privacy issues in Peer to Peer networks
In any typical P2P file sharing app, say DC++, the typical operations are search content, push content and pull content. A peer node broadcasts/multicasts its query to fellow peers and receives ...
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What is known about the sirefef/zeroaccess malware/botnet?
There appears to be an increase in p2p communication among botnets that has been attributed to the sirefef/zeroaccess malware botnet. What is known on this particular threat?
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how to identify p2p on network
Im trying to work out if the traffic in the below image is P2P file sharing?
If you notice the source ports are all random but the time 17.24 from c.port 58338 runs for a good length maybe about 400 ...
