Self-Authentication
Today all known mechanisms that grant access to distributed or shared services and resources require central authoritative control in some form,raising issues in regard to security,trust and privacy. This paper presents a system of authentication that not only abolishes the requirements for any centrally stored user credential records,it also negates the necessity for any server based systems as a login entity for users to connect with prior to gaining access to a system.
DHT-based NAT Traversal
Todayâs Distributed Hash Tables (DHTâs) and other overlay networks are based on operating without hindrance of real world issues regarding connectivity between nodes. This is not a problem when operating in a private or controlled environment,but in the transition to peer to peer or fully distributed networks,it becomes a major headache. This paper introduces a pure p2p solution to Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal,which is probably the main problem facing public p2p networks.
