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Number 2 - June 2016
Volume 26 - 2016
A branch hash function as a method of message synchronization in anonymous P2P conversations
Anna Kobusińska, Jerzy Brzeziński, Michał Boroń, Łukasz Inatlewski, Michał Jabczyński, Mateusz Maciejewski
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.
Keywords
peer-to-peer, synchronization, conversations, anonymity