Torrent Forensics: Are your Files Being Shared in the BitTorrent Network?
Date
2017-11-10
Authors
Alhazmi, Ali
Maci´a-Fern´andez, Gabriel
Camacho, Jos´e
Salah, Saeed
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CYBER 2017 : The Second International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems, At Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
BitTorrent is the most common protocol for
file sharing nowadays. Due to its distributed nature,
monitoring BitTorrent is a difficult task. Under this
perception of anonymity, BitTorrent has motivated the
rise of criminal activities such as copyright infringement
or the sharing of stolen secret documents. This work-inprogress
paper focuses on identifying whether a given
resource has been shared in the BitTorrent network.
We have termed this problem torrent forensics. We
propose a methodology to solve this problem as well
as the design of an operational system to implement
the solution. The system is run in two different phases.
First, we monitor the network and collect .torrent files
that describe the resources being shared. Second, a
detection module analyzes a given resource and decides
if it was observed in the network. We carry out preliminary
experiments to support the hypotheses for the
design of the system.
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Keywords
BitTorrent , P2P , Torrent Forensics