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Developers:

Nathan Fischer, CJ Buresch, Anna Kocer, Yuriy Kravtsov, and Cyril van Dyke

##Background We are living in the Age of Information, and with the growing amount of data available, the secure storage and accessibility of this data is of vital concern. The accepted standard for peer-to-peer key-value storage is the distributed hash table (DHT) implementation. Currently, the designs available to us have security flaws impacting both availability and reliability; the shortcomings in this category of network security exemplify the need for further innovation.

DH256 is the result of a Gonzaga University capstone computer science research project, suggested and led by Nathaniel Fischer. It serves as a solution to the privacy threats that are present in existing designs, providing users with more reliable and resistant system. The protocol, implementation source code and final analysis have been made available for public use under the MIT free software license.

Deployment and testing will be done using a Raspberry Pi cluster consisting of 20 different machines, each of which hosts multiple nodes in the network. This initial testing ground is verification for the expected operation of DH256.

The behavior of the DH256 network is described in the following document:

• DH256