title={Group-Based Characterization for the I2P Anonymous File-Sharing Environment},
author={Timpanaro, J.P. and Chrisment, I and Festor, O.},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)},
year={2014},
month={March},
pages={1--5},
abstract={{The I2P network provides an abstraction layer allowing two parties to communicate in an anonymous manner. This network is optimised for anonymous web hosting and anonymous file-sharing. I2P's file- sharing community is highly active where users deploy their file-sharing applications on top of the network. I2P uses a variation of Onion routing, thus assuring the unlinkability between a user and its file-sharing application. In this paper, we take the first step towards the linkability of users and applications in the I2P network. We conduct a group-based characterisation, where we determine to what extent a group of users is responsible for the overall I2P's file-sharing activity. We used Pearson's coefficient to correlate users from two cities and the most used anonymous file-sharing application. We determine that two cities explain more than a third of all file-sharing activity within the I2P network.}},
keywords={Internet;data privacy;groupware;peer-to-peer computing;I2P anonymous file-sharing environment;I2P network;Invisible Internet Project;Onion routing;Pearsons coefficient;abstraction layer;anonymous Web hosting;anonymous file-sharing application;file-sharing activity;group-based characterisation;user-application linkability;Cities and towns;Correlation;Distributed databases;IP networks;Internet;Monitoring;Privacy},
doi={10.1109/NTMS.2014.6814020},
www_section=traffic,
}
@inproceedings{egger2013:practical-attacks,
title={Practical Attacks Against the I2P Network},
author={Christoph Egger and Johannes Schlumberger and Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna},
