Reputation in privacy enhancing technologies

  • Authors:
  • Roger Dingledine;Nick Mathewson;Paul Syverson

  • Affiliations:
  • Reputation Technologies, Inc.;Reputation Technologies, Inc.;Naval Research Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computers, freedom and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Reputation is the linchpin of a dynamic and pseudonymous future. In a networked world where individuals interact via anonymous remailers, and where the online services they use are themselves provided by an ever-changing pool of semi-anonymous users, the distinction between pseudonym and identity blurs. In this world, reputation is one of the few tools that can still provide trust --- trust among the users of distributed services, and even the trust necessary to maintain reliability and accountability of these services.