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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

A Peer-to-Peer Content-Distribution Scheme Resilient to Key Leakage

Tatsuyuki MATSUSHITA, Shinji YAMANAKA, Fangming ZHAO

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have attracted increasing attention in the distribution of large-volume and frequently accessed content. In this paper, we mainly consider the problem of key leakage in secure P2P content distribution. In secure content distribution, content is encrypted so that only legitimate users can access the content. Usually, users (peers) cannot be fully trusted in a P2P network because malicious ones might leak their decryption keys. If the redistribution of decryption keys occurs, copyright holders may incur great losses caused by free riders who access content without purchasing it. To decrease the damage caused by the key leakage, the individualization of encrypted content is necessary. The individualization means that a different (set of) decryption key(s) is required for each user to access content. In this paper, we propose a P2P content distribution scheme resilient to the key leakage that achieves the individualization of encrypted content. We show the feasibility of our scheme by conducting a large-scale P2P experiment in a real network.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E99-D No.12 pp.2956-2967
Publication Date
2016/12/01
Publicized
2016/08/25
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2016PAP0018
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking)
Category
Distributed system

Authors

Tatsuyuki MATSUSHITA
  Toshiba Corporation
Shinji YAMANAKA
  Toshiba Corporation
Fangming ZHAO
  Toshiba Corporation

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