In the project we have designed and developed an Enhanced Closed Swam protocol. The protocol provides flexible and distributed access control mechanisms for peer-to-peer systems and protects the content provisioning system resources from unauthorized usage. The protocol has been described in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft and submitted to the Peer to Peer Streaming (PPSP) charter that has published it as a draft. The protocol draft answers most of the PPSP charter security requirements and fulfils a decade old gap in P2P content delivery technologies. Besides, the requirement to protect the P2P content delivery from unauthorized usage is one of the most exposed professional content providers requirement. The draft describes how to implement needed access control security mechanisms like users authentication, distributed access control policies, data origin authentication, integrity and confidentiality services, prevention of security threats like replay attacks, and mechanisms for swarm trust management. The protocol specifies how to use the protocol with the core charter Peer-to-Peer Streaming Peer Protocol (PPSPP). The adoption of the standard would raise an entire charter protocol family chances of acceptance among their target users, specifically by professional content providers. The protocol improves security and privacy of the peer-to-peer content distribution for the end users as well.
F.31 Development of standards