A Survey on Content Retrieval on the Decentralised Web

N Keizer, O Ascigil, M Król, D Kutscher… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The control, governance, and management of the web have become increasingly
centralised, resulting in security, privacy, and censorship concerns. Decentralised initiatives …

The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in {IPFS}

Y Wei, D Trautwein, Y Psaras, I Castro, W Scott… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Web centralization and consolidation has created potential single points of failure, eg, in
areas such as content hosting, name resolution, and certification. The" Decentralized Web" …

Sybil attack strikes again: denying content access in IPFS with a single computer

T Cholez, CL Ignat - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Distributed Hash Table (DHT) architecture is known to be a very efficient way to
implement peer-to-peer (P2P) computer networks. However, the scientific literature also …

ScaleDFS: Accelerating Decentralized and Private File Sharing via Scaling Directed Acyclic Graph Processing

M Song, LA Nguyen, S Kim, H Eom, Y Son - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces a novel file system, ScaleDFS, designed to accelerate decentralized
file sharing for a private network, leveraging the potential of scaling file management based …

Peer2PIR: Private Queries for IPFS

M Mazmudar, S Veitch, RA Mahdavi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17307, 2024 - arxiv.org
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer network for storing data in a
distributed file system, hosting over 190,000 peers spanning 152 countries. Despite its …

Plausibly Deniable Content Discovery for Bitswap Using Random Walks

M Wedler, E Daniel, F Tschorsch - 2024 IEEE 49th Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bitswap is the data exchange protocol for the content-addressed peer-to-peer overlay
network IPFS. During content discovery, Bitswap reveals the interest of a peer in content to …

Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication

C Ndolo, F Tschorsch - 6th Conference on Advances in Financial …, 2024 - drops.dagstuhl.de
The Lightning network (LN) offers a solution to Bitcoin's scalability limitations by providing
fast and private off-chain payments. In addition to the LN's long known application-level …

Next-Generation Distributed Hash Tables

S Sokoto, M Król, V Stankovic, E Rivière - Proceedings of the on CoNEXT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) serve as the backbone of numerous modern decentralized
systems like the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and Ethereum. As these systems evolve …

Enhancing IPFS privacy through triple hashing

T Katsantas, Y Thomas, C Karapapas… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a popular distributed storage system, with
worldwide presence. Due to the open nature and distributed routing of IPFS, malicious users …