21 Survey of Sybil Attacks in Networks
Wei Chang and Jie Wu
Most peer-to-peer systems are vulnerable to Sybil attacks. The Sybil attack is an attack wherein a reputation system is subverted by a considerable number of forging identities in peer-to-peer networks. By illegitimately infusing false or biased information via the pseudonymous identities, an adversary can mislead a system into making decisions benefiting herself. For example, in a distributed voting system, an adversary can easily change the overall popularity of an option by providing plenty of false praise or bad-mouthing the option through these fake identities. In this chapter, we summarize the existing Sybil defense techniques and further provide some new research areas. Unlike ...
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