A reputation-based approach for choosing reliable resources in peer-to-peer networks Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:560339, abstract = {Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have seen an enormous success, and recently introduced P2P services have reached tens of millions of users. A feature that significantly contributes to the success of many P2P applications is user anonymity. However, anonymity opens the door to possible misuses and abuses, exploiting the P2P network as a way to spread tampered with resources, including Trojan Horses, viruses, and spam. To address this problem we propose a self-regulating system where the P2P network is used to implement a robust reputation mechanism. Reputation sharing is realized through a distributed polling algorithm by which resource requestors can assess the reliability of a resource offered by a participant before initiating the download. This way, spreading of malicious contents will be reduced and eventually blocked. Our approach can be straightforwardly piggybacked on existing P2P protocols and requires modest modifications to current implementations.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Damiani, Ernesto and di Vimercati, De C. and Paraboschi, Stefano and Samarati, Pierangela and Violante, Fabio}, booktitle = {CCS '02: Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security}, citeulike-article-id = {560339}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=586138}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/586110.586138}, doi = {10.1145/586110.586138}, isbn = {1-58113-612-9}, keywords = {p2p, reputation}, location = {Washington, DC, USA}, pages = {207--216}, posted-at = {2006-09-15 00:00:50}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A reputation-based approach for choosing reliable resources in peer-to-peer networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/586110.586138}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:560339 L3 - citeulike-article-id:560339 N2 - Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have seen an enormous success, and recently introduced P2P services have reached tens of millions of users. A feature that significantly contributes to the success of many P2P applications is user anonymity. However, anonymity opens the door to possible misuses and abuses, exploiting the P2P network as a way to spread tampered with resources, including Trojan Horses, viruses, and spam. To address this problem we propose a self-regulating system where the P2P network is used to implement a robust reputation mechanism. Reputation sharing is realized through a distributed polling algorithm by which resource requestors can assess the reliability of a resource offered by a participant before initiating the download. This way, spreading of malicious contents will be reduced and eventually blocked. Our approach can be straightforwardly piggybacked on existing P2P protocols and requires modest modifications to current implementations. CY - Washington, DC, USA SN - 1-58113-612-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 216 TI - A reputation-based approach for choosing reliable resources in peer-to-peer networks PB - ACM T2 - CCS '02: Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security SP - 207 KW - p2p KW - reputation AU - Damiani, Ernesto AU - di Vimercati, De AU - Paraboschi, Stefano AU - Samarati, Pierangela AU - Violante, Fabio PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/586110.586138 ER -