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Safe and private data sharing with turtle: friends team-up and beat the system

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Bogdan C. Popescu,

Andrew S. TanenbaumAuthors Info & Claims

SP'04: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Security Protocols

Pages 213 - 220

https://doi.org/10.1007/11861386_24

Published: 26 April 2004 Publication History

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In this paper we describe Turtle, a peer-to-peer architecture for safe sharing of sensitive data. The truly revolutionary aspect of Turtle rests in its novel way of dealing with trust issues: while existing peer-to-peer architectures with similar aims attempt to build trust relationships on top of the basic, trust-agnostic, peer-to-peer overlay, Turtle takes the opposite approach, and builds its overlay on top of pre-existent trust relationships among its users. This allows both data sender and receiver anonymity, while also protecting each and every intermediate relay in the data query path. Furthermore, its unique trust model allows Turtle to withstand most of the denial of service attacks that plague other peer-to-peer data sharing networks.

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SP'04: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Security Protocols

April 2004

324 pages

ISBN:3540409254

Editors:
Bruce Christianson
Computer Science Department, University of Hertfordshire
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Bruno Crispo
Computer Systems Group, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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James A. Malcolm
Computer Systems Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Michael Roe
Computer Systems Group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

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