Paper Info
Title
Group-Based Characterization for the I2P Anonymous File-Sharing Environment
Abstract
The I2P network provides an abstraction layer allowing two parties to communicate in an anonymous manner. This network is optimised for anonymous web hosting and anonymous file-sharing. I2P's file- sharing community is highly active where users deploy their file-sharing applications on top of the network. I2P uses a variation of Onion routing, thus assuring the unlinkability between a user and its file-sharing application. In this paper, we take the first step towards the linkability of users and applications in the I2P network. We conduct a group-based characterisation, where we determine to what extent a group of users is responsible for the overall I2P's file-sharing activity. We used Pearson's coefficient to correlate users from two cities and the most used anonymous file-sharing application. We determine that two cities explain more than a third of all file-sharing activity within the I2P network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/NTMS.2014.6814020
New Technologies, Mobility and Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,data privacy,groupware,peer-to-peer computing,I2P anonymous file-sharing environment,I2P network,Invisible Internet Project,Onion routing,Pearsons coefficient,abstraction layer,anonymous Web hosting,anonymous file-sharing application,file-sharing activity,group-based characterisation,user-application linkability
World Wide Web,Computer science,Computer network,Abstraction layer,File sharing,Onion routing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2157-4952
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Pablo Timpanaro1203.53
Isabelle Chrisment222525.75
Olivier Festor366585.40