Employing Trusted Computing for the forward pricing of pseudonyms in reputation systems

Reputation and recommendation systems are fundamental for the formation of community market places. Yet, they are easy targets for attacks which disturb a market's equilibrium and are often based on cheap pseudonyms used to submit ratings. We present a method to price ratings using trusted computing, based on pseudonymous tickets.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Nicolai Kuntze, Dominique Maehler, Andreas U. Schmidt
• Keywords: Community Market, CORR 2006, Easy Targets, Education, Recommendation Systems