Session
Accountability and Resource Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Roger Dingledine, Security Philosopher, The Free Haven Project
Michael J. Freedman, Graduate Student, MIT
Track: Technical Track
Date: Friday, February 16
Time: 2:15pm
- 2:45pm
Location: Georgian Room
We address accountability and resource allocation approaches for current
and future peer-to-peer systems, including ways of limiting the damage
done by freeloaders. We show how micropayments and reputations can help
prevent communications denial of service and storage flooding attacks. Our
discussion emphasizes accountability solutions that maintain other design
requirements, such as anonymity or dynamic networks. After our talk, a
conference participant will be in a position to think carefully about
how resource allocation problems apply to new peer-to-peer systems and
will have some idea of where to start solving these problems.