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Submitted on 3rd of July 2003
Author Marti, Sergio; Garcia-Molina, Hector
Title Identity Crisis: Anonymity vs. Reputation in P2P Systems
Date of publication September 2003
Published in Third IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Citation Marti, Sergio; Garcia-Molina, Hector. Identity Crisis: Anonymity vs. Reputation in P2P Systems, Third IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Number of pages 8
Language English
Project Peers
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Distributed Systems; Miscellaneous
Abstract The effectiveness of reputation systems for peer-to-peer resource-sharing networks is largely dependent on the reliability of the identities used by peers in the network. Much debate has centered around how closely one's pseudo-identity in the network should be tied to their real-world identity, and how that identity is protected from malicious spoofing. In this paper we investigate the cost in efficiency of two solutions to the identity problem for peer-to-peer reputation systems. Our results show that, using some simple mechanisms, reputation systems can provide a factor of 4 to 20 improvement in performance over no reputation system, depending on the identity model used.
Keywords peer-to-peer, reputation system, trust, security, identity
Contact address smarti@cs.stanford.edu
Sponsored by This research is supported in part by NSF Grant (IIS-9817799).
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