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P2PRIV
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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>P2PRIV separates anonymization from user data transport. Before sending data, signalization tokens are forwarded over classical anonymous cascades towards formation of so-called <i>cloning cascades</i> (CC). The well-known anonymous techniques (i.e. <a href="/facts/Mix_network/jrYemgoF">Mix network</a> and <a href="/facts/Crowds/eFBkf8J5">Crowds</a>' <a href="/facts/Random_walk/08v0jmfv">Random walk</a> algorithm) are utilized in hiding the initiator of the CC. Then, after a random interval of time, each CC member (i.e. group of clones and the true initiator) communicates directly and independently with destination nodes. A process of finding the true initiator among network nodes is hard to perform even for an adversary able to collude a significant part of overlay network. </p> <h2 id="weaknesses">Weaknesses</h2> <p>P2PRIV requires a fully distributed network with distributed information content to assure high-anonymous access to its resources. A utility of P2PRIV in client-server like services, e.g., <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a> system, or in hybrid P2P topologies, is problematic in its current form. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Anonymous_P2P/tk26uAgL">Anonymous P2P</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Secure_communication/XkAkCLM8">Secure communication</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Overlay_network/NCJoCs7P">Overlay network</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://p2priv.org/">The P2PRIV Project</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110316114259/http://p2priv.org/pubs/p2priv-aina2008">Paper proposing P2PRIV: <i>A Concept of an Anonymous Direct P2P Distribution Overlay System</i></a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110502004411/http://p2priv.org/pubs/p2priv-ipom2008/">Paper describing overlay transport protocol for P2PRIV: <i>Low-Latency Parallel Transport in Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Overlays</i></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/">Anonymity Bibliography</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Protégez votre surf sur Internet". Archived from the original on 2012-05-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120528230440/http://p2priv.org/news/website_launched" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120528230440/http://p2priv.org/news/website_launched</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Protégez votre surf sur Internet". Archived from the original on 2012-05-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120528230440/http://p2priv.org/news" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120528230440/http://p2priv.org/news</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>