Wednesday, October 01, 2003

New Scientist: P2P Security Flaw.

New Scientist: "A research paper highlighting security weaknesses in a popular internet file-sharing network has raised concerns that innocent users could in theory be wrongly accused of sharing copyrighted music."

This was an anonymous paper put out on a random FTP site. Essentially the paper exposes a structual problem with the Gnutella protocol allowing whoever knows about it to disguise or mislead the protocol concerning the name of the files on the network.

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