Practical, Anonymous, and Publicly Linkable Universally-Composable Reputation Systems

Abstract

We consider reputation systems in the Universal Composability Framework where users can anonymously rate each others products that they purchased previously. To obtain trustworthy, reliable, and honest ratings, users are allowed to rate products only once. Everybody is able to detect users that rate products multiple times. In this paper we present an ideal functionality for such reputation systems and give an efficient realization that is usable in practical applications.

Publication
Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2018 - The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 16-20, 2018, Proceedings