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In this paper we propose a new Peer-to-Peer architecture for a censorship resistant system with user, server and active-server document anonymity as well as efficient document retrieval. The retrieval service is layered on top of an existing Peer-to-Peer infrastructure, which should facilitate its implementation. The key idea is to separate the role of document storers from the machines visible to the users, which makes each individual part of the system less prone to attacks, and therefore to censorship.
Indeed, if one server has been pressured into removal, the other server administrators may simply follow the precedent and remove the offending content themselves.
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Serjantov, A. (2002). Anonymizing Censorship Resistant Systems. In: Druschel, P., Kaashoek, F., Rowstron, A. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems. IPTPS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2429. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45748-8_11
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