<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Currently existing solutions rarely protect message integrity, authenticity and user anonymity without burdening the user with details of key management. To address this problem, we present Aldeon-a protocol for anonymous group conversations in a peer-to-peer system. The efficiency of Aldeon is based on a novel tree synchronization algorithm, which is proposed and discussed in this paper. By using this algorithm, a significant reduction in the number of exchanged messages is achieved. In the paper, the formal definition of the proposed hash branch function and the proof of its efficiency are presented.</p></abstract>

Currently existing solutions rarely protect message integrity, authenticity and user anonymity without burdening the user with details of key management. To address this problem, we present Aldeon-a protocol for anonymous group conversations in a peer-to-peer system. The efficiency of Aldeon is based on a novel tree synchronization algorithm, which is proposed and discussed in this paper. By using this algorithm, a significant reduction in the number of exchanged messages is achieved. In the paper, the formal definition of the proposed hash branch function and the proof of its efficiency are presented.

A branch hash function as a method of message synchronization in anonymous P2P conversations

Institute of Computing Science Poznań University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 2, 61-131 Poznań, Poland

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Currently existing solutions rarely protect message integrity, authenticity and user anonymity without burdening the user with details of key management. To...

A branch hash function as a method of message synchronization in anonymous P2P conversations

Published Online: Jul 02, 2016

Page range: 479 - 493

Received: Jan 12, 2015

Accepted: Jan 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2016-0034

Keywords
peer-to-peer, synchronization, conversations, anonymity

© by Anna Kobusińska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A branch hash function as a method of message synchronization in anonymous P2P conversations

Published Online: Jul 02, 2016

Page range: 479 - 493

Received: Jan 12, 2015

Accepted: Jan 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2016-0034

Keywordspeer-to-peer, synchronization, conversations, anonymity

© by Anna Kobusińska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
peer-to-peer, synchronization, conversations, anonymity