The goal of the SecSPeer project is to handle the two main drawbacks observed in well-known P2P distributed systems; scalability and security. In P2P systems each participant (servent) offers content to the rest of the participants and at the same time can also request content from them. To do this, each servent has to be aware of the existence and the probably the location of each other servent participating in the topology. For that reason, the prevailing method used is broadcasting (i.e.: trying to ask everyone in the system). This technique that is adopted mostly by the current P2P systems suffers since the number of peers continuously increase and the size of data transferred get larger dramatically, causing many scalability optimization issues. In addition, this large and unstructured (in most cases) topology is extremely vulnerable to malicious cyber-attacks over the web, such as DDoS and DoS attacks.

• Institution of Fundings: GSRT/Ministry of Growth
  

• Partners: FORTH (Greece), University of Pittsburgh (USA), Virtual Trip Ltd.

• Start - End: 1/1/2004 - 31/12/2005 (Duration: 24 months)

• Project Budget: 75.000,00 €

• Project Funding: 60.000,00 €

• VTrip Budget: 30.000,00 €

• VTrip Funding: 15.000,00 €