The Sybil Attack Export

@inbook{citeulike:1904709, abstract = {Large-scale peer-to-peer systems face security threats from faulty or hostile remote computing elements. To resist these threats, many such systems employ redundancy. However, if a single faulty entity can present multiple identities, it can control a substantial fraction of the system, thereby undermining this redundancy. One approach to preventing these ” Sybil attacks” is to have a trusted agency certify identities. This paper shows that, without a logically centralized authority, Sybil attacks are always possible except under extreme and unrealistic assumptions of resource parity and coordination among entities.}, author = {Douceur, John}, booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1904709}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45748-8_24}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/3an0ek5gfan3dtx9}, doi = {10.1007/3-540-45748-8_24}, journal = {Peer-to-Peer Systems}, keywords = {security, sybil}, pages = {251--260}, posted-at = {2009-10-19 19:27:32}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, title = {The Sybil Attack}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45748-8_24}, volume = {2429/2002}, year = {2002} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1904709 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1904709 N2 - Large-scale peer-to-peer systems face security threats from faulty or hostile remote computing elements. To resist these threats, many such systems employ redundancy. However, if a single faulty entity can present multiple identities, it can control a substantial fraction of the system, thereby undermining this redundancy. One approach to preventing these “Sybil attacks” is to have a trusted agency certify identities. This paper shows that, without a logically centralized authority, Sybil attacks are always possible except under extreme and unrealistic assumptions of resource parity and coordination among entities. JF - Peer-to-Peer Systems SE - Lecture Notes in Computer Science EP - 260 TI - The Sybil Attack PB - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg VL - 2429/2002 T2 - Peer-to-Peer Systems SP - 251 KW - security KW - sybil AU - Douceur, John PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45748-8_24 ER -