OneSwarm

Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge.

OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing. OneSwarm is:

Papers

This paper describes the data sharing features of OneSwarm:

OneSwarm builds on our current and recent work regarding P2P system design. For more information, check out the papers below.

People

Tomas Isdal
Michael Piatek
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Tom Anderson