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Vincent Naessens, Bart De Win, Bart De Decker
A generic P2P architecture for anonymous services
Abstract
Peer-to-peer systems exhibit, due to their decentralized struc- ture, interesting anonymity properties and are therefore often used as a supporting service for anonymous applications. Unfortunately, there is currently no overall framework that captures the various peer-to-peer models and their special features to guide the devel- opment of anonymous applications. This paper presents a generic and exible architecture for peer-to-peer systems that separates ap- plications and supporting services. The architecture is structured in dirent layers and each layer comprises a set of generic and reusable building blocks. To demonstrate the power of the architecture, we have implemented an anonymous chat application on top of the ar- chitecture.
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