Whanau: A Sybil-Proof Distributed Hash Table

Whānau is a novel routing protocol for distributed hash tables (DHTs) that is efficient and strongly resistant to the Sybil attack. Whānau uses the social connections between users to build routing tables that enable Sybil-resistant lookups. The number of Sybils in the social network does not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaashoek, M. Frans, Lesniewski-Laas, Christopher Tur
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: USENIX Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61338
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-586X