
Chapter 7
Security Issues
7.1 Overview
Security issues are even more prominent in a P2P network, compared with
a traditional client-server system. This is because without centralized author-
ity (i.e., trusted servers), it is very difficult to guarantee data integrity and
confidentiality in the P2P data sharing process. Specifically, it is difficult to
encrypt data because key management is hard in a P2P network. Without
such confidentiality protection, all kinds of serious problems arise, such as file
content poisoning, routing table pollution, etc. The key issue here is that there
is little a peer can do to verify the data being shared.
Another baffling issue ...