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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2008.18.4.103

Designing Reliable P2P Transmission Mechanism Against MITM Attack  

Kim, Sang-Choon (Gangwon National University)
Kwon, Hyeonk-Chan (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
Nah, Jae-Hoon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.18, no.4, 2008 , pp. 103-109 More about this Journal
Abstract
Many Internet application provide the PKI(public key infrastructure)-based service to provide authentication and message integrity. Several researchers proposed PKI-based p2p network framework. However, in the real world, the use of PKI is not suitable for peer to peer network, because the peer-to-peer network is an open and dynamic network. Moreover, currently there is no nation-to-nation interoperable certificate. In this paper, we designed reliable p2p file sharing application without public key infrastructure. To do this we propose reliable public key distribution mechanism to distribute public key safely without PKI infrastructure for two-tier super-peer architecture. In our system, each peer generates and distributes its public/private key pairs, and the public key is securely distributed without PKI. The proposed mechanism is safe against MITM attack. This mechanism can be applied various P2P applications such as file sharing, IPTV, distributed resource sharing and so on
Keywords
P2P security; MITM; Public key distribution; PKI; self-certificate;
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