SecureTorrent: A Security Framework for File
Swarming
Kenneth Wilson and Philip Machanick
Proc. Eleventh Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference ACSAC-2006, Shanghai, September 2006, pp 538-544
SecureTorrent is a secure file swarming system based on BitTorrent. It provides access control, end-to-end confidentiality, and auditability, while maintaining advantages of file swarming. This paper presents an initial performance evaluation. As compared with BitTor-rent, the performance overhead of encryption in most cases is negligible, at worst 15%. In a real-world higher latency network, the extra overhead of encryption would be significantly lower.
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