Sybil proof anonymous reputation management
Wolf Müller, Henryk Plötz, Jens-Peter Redlich, Takashi Shiraki · 2008
Many new Internet applications base on openness to externally contributed content. The numerous user contributions offer both opportunities and threats. A priori, the quality of those user-generated contributions is unknown. The customers have to decide which offer they want to make use of. Reputation systems can help to optimize the user's return-of-investment. Privacy with respect to user provided reputation information is important for the acceptance.