Identifying P2P users using traffic analysis

Identifying P2P users using traffic analysis
Yiming Gong

With the emergence of Napster in the fall of 1999, peer to peer (P2P) applications and their user base have grown rapidly in the Internet community. With the popularity of P2P and the bandwidth it consume, there is a growing need to identify P2P users within the network traffic.

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Identifying P2P users using traffic analysis 2006-05-19
Anonymous

The best way to stop or track the usage of P2P is still the ultimate way of tracking the the signature, since all the P2P Applications is dependent of the signature for each protocol, which makes any system administrator able to stop or deny them.

And no not needed to monitor every packet, since the signature is normaly sent in the last end of the TCP handshaking.

+ There exist already ways to sort this using opensource :)

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