Reputation in privacy enhancing technologies
Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul F. Syverson · 2002
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.