Content Access Control Scheme for P2P Networks Using a Reputation Value

Abstract

In recent years, with the improvement of the high speed communication infrastructure, P2P content distribution systems have been attracting more attention. In a P2P content distribution system, the lack of a central management server provides the system its robustness. However, it also leads to problems in content reliability and accessibility. We propose a secure content distribution system with improved accessibility by introducing a secret sharing scheme.