On the Economics of Anonymity Export

@incollection{citeulike:2533139, abstract = {Decentralized anonymity infrastructures are still not in wide use today. While there are technical barriers to a secure robust design, our lack of understanding of the incentives to participate in such systems remains a major roadblock. Here we explore some reasons why anonymity systems are particularly hard to deploy, enumerate the incentives to participate either as senders or also as nodes, and build a general model to describe the effects of these incentives. We then describe and justify some simplifying assumptions to make the model manageable, and compare optimal strategies for participants based on a variety of scenarios. Keywords: Anonymity, economics, incentives, decentralized, reputation}, author = {Acquisti, Alessandro and Dingledine, Roger and Syverson, Paul}, citeulike-article-id = {2533139}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/cbyufprgwjgubhlb}, journal = {Financial Cryptography}, keywords = {anonymity, behavior, cryptography, economics}, pages = {84--102}, posted-at = {2009-03-11 17:51:02}, priority = {4}, title = {On the Economics of Anonymity}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/cbyufprgwjgubhlb}, year = {2003} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2533139 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2533139 N2 - Decentralized anonymity infrastructures are still not in wide use today. While there are technical barriers to a secure robust design, our lack of understanding of the incentives to participate in such systems remains a major roadblock. Here we explore some reasons why anonymity systems are particularly hard to deploy, enumerate the incentives to participate either as senders or also as nodes, and build a general model to describe the effects of these incentives. We then describe and justify some simplifying assumptions to make the model manageable, and compare optimal strategies for participants based on a variety of scenarios. Keywords: Anonymity, economics, incentives, decentralized, reputation JF - Financial Cryptography EP - 102 TI - On the Economics of Anonymity SP - 84 KW - anonymity KW - behavior KW - cryptography KW - economics AU - Acquisti, Alessandro AU - Dingledine, Roger AU - Syverson, Paul PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/cbyufprgwjgubhlb ER -