Anonymous and publicly linkable reputation systems

Johannes Blömer, Jakob Juhnke*, Christina Kolb

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Abstract

We consider reputation systems where users are allowed to rate products that they purchased previously. To obtain trustworthy reputations, they are allowed to rate these products only once. As long as they do so, the users stay anonymous. Everybody is able to detect users deviating from the rate-products-only-once policy and the anonymity of such dishonest users can be revoked by a system manager. In this paper we present formal models for such reputation systems and their security. Based on group signatures we design an efficient reputation system that meets all our requirements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFinancial Cryptography and Data Security
Subtitle of host publication19th International Conference, FC 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 26-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsTatsuaki Okamoto, Rainer Bohme
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer
Pages478-488
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-662-47854-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-662-47853-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2015 - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Duration: 26 Jan 201530 Jan 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume8975
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2015
Country/TerritoryPuerto Rico
CitySan Juan
Period26/01/1530/01/15

Keywords

  • Anonymity
  • Group signatures
  • Linkability
  • Reputation
  • Strongexculpability
  • Traceability
  • Trust
  • Verifier-local revocation
  • n/a OA procedure

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