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Co-utile Privacy-Aware P2P Content Distribution

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Multicast distribution of content is not suited to content-based electronic commerce because all buyers obtain exactly the same copy of the content, in such a way that unlawful redistributors cannot be traced. Unicast distribution has the shortcoming of requiring one connection with each buyer, but it allows the merchant to embed a different serial number in the copy obtained by each buyer, which enables redistributor tracing. Peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution is a third option which may combine some of the advantages of multicast and unicast: on the one hand, the merchant only needs unicast connections with a few seed buyers, who take over the task of further spreading the content; on the other hand, if a proper fingerprinting mechanism is used, unlawful redistributors of the P2P distributed content can still be traced. In this chapter, we describe a co-utile fingerprinting mechanism for P2P content distribution which allows redistributor tracing, while preserving the privacy of most honest buyers and offering collusion resistance and buyer frameproofness.

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Funding by the Templeton World Charity Foundation (grant TWCF0095/AB60 “CO-UTILITY”) is gratefully acknowledged. Also, partial support to this work has been received from the Government of Catalonia (ICREA Acadèmia Prize to J. Domingo-Ferrer and grant 2014 SGR 537), the Spanish Government (projects TIN2014-57364-C2-1-R “SmartGlacis”, TIN2015-70054-REDC and TIN2016-80250-R “Sec-MCloud”) and the European Commission (projects H2020-644024 “CLARUS” and H2020-700540 “CANVAS”). The authors are with the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, but the views in this work are the authors’ own and are not necessarily shared by UNESCO or any of the funding bodies.

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  1. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 5, 08860, Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain

    David Megías

  2. UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans 26, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep Domingo-Ferrer

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  1. UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep Domingo-Ferrer

  2. UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

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Megías, D., Domingo-Ferrer, J. (2018). Co-utile Privacy-Aware P2P Content Distribution. In: Domingo-Ferrer, J., Sánchez, D. (eds) Co-utility. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60234-9_6

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