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Pushing BitTorrent Locality to the Limit
Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous
Peer-to-peer (P2P) locality has recently raised a lot of interest in the community. Indeed, whereas P2P content distribution enables financial savings for the content providers, it…
Can Realistic BitTorrent Experiments Be Performed on Clusters?
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous
Network latency and packet loss are considered to be an important requirement for realistic evaluation of Peer-to-Peer protocols. Dedicated clusters, such as Grid'5000, do not prov…
Compromising Tor Anonymity Exploiting P2P Information Leakage
Pere Manils, Chaabane Abdelberri, Stevens Le Blond +4
Privacy of users in P2P networks goes far beyond their current usage and is a fundamental requirement to the adoption of P2P protocols for legal usage. In a climate of cold war bet…
De-anonymizing BitTorrent Users on Tor
Stevens Le Blond, Pere Manils, Abdelberi Chaabane +4
Some BitTorrent users are running BitTorrent on top of Tor to preserve their privacy. In this extended abstract, we discuss three different attacks to reveal the IP address of BitT…
Spying the World from your Laptop -- Identifying and Profiling Content Providers and Big Downloaders in BitTorrent
Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout, Fabrice Le Fessant +2
This paper presents a set of exploits an adversary can use to continuously spy on most BitTorrent users of the Internet from a single machine and for a long period of time. Using t…
BitTorrent Experiments on Testbeds: A Study of the Impact of Network Latencies
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous
In this paper, we study the impact of network latency on the time required to download a file distributed using BitTorrent. This study is essential to understand if testbeds can be…