3rd Annual International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

A Framework to Provide Anonymity in Reputation Systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/MOBIQ.2006.340391,
        author={Hugo Miranda  Luıs Rodrigues},
        title={A Framework to Provide Anonymity in Reputation Systems},
        proceedings={3rd Annual International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2007},
        month={4},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/MOBIQ.2006.340391}
    }
    
  • Hugo Miranda Luıs Rodrigues
    Year: 2007
    A Framework to Provide Anonymity in Reputation Systems
    MOBIQUITOUS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2006.340391
Hugo Miranda Luıs Rodrigues1
  • 1: Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract

In ubiquitous networks, the multiple devices carried by an user may unintentionally expose information about her habits or preferences. This information leakage can compromise the users' right to privacy. A common approach to increase privacy is to hide the user real identity under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, pseudonyms may interfere with the reputation systems that are often used to assert the reliability of the information provided by the participants in the network. This paper presents a framework for combining anonymity with reputation and shows that it can be configured to provide a desired degree of balance between these two conflicting goals. The proposed solution leverages on well-known cryptographic techniques, such as public key infrastructure and blind signatures