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PeerTrust: A Trust Mechanism for an Open Peer-to-Peer Information System

dc.contributor.author Xiong, Li en_US
dc.contributor.author Liu, Ling
dc.date.accessioned 2005-06-17T17:40:28Z
dc.date.available 2005-06-17T17:40:28Z
dc.date.issued 2002 en_US
dc.description.abstract In an open peer-to-peer information system, peers often have to interact with unknown or unfamiliar peers and need to manage the risk that is involved with the interactions without any presence of trusted third parties or trust authorities. It is important for peers to be able to reason about trust when interacting with each other to accomplish a task. This paper presents PeerTrust, a simple and yet effective trust mechanism for quantifying and comparing the trustworthiness of peers. We argue that the amount of satisfaction a peer obtains through interactions, the total number of interactions that a peer has with other peers, and the balancing factor of trust all play a crucial role in evaluating the trustworthiness of the peer. This paper also discusses the architecture and the design considerations in implementing this mechanism in a decentralized peer-to-peer system. We report the set of initial experiments, showing the feasibility, the cost, and the benefit of our approach. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6539
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries CC Technical Report; GIT-CC-02-29 en_US
dc.subject Peer-to-peer information system
dc.subject Computer security
dc.title PeerTrust: A Trust Mechanism for an Open Peer-to-Peer Information System en_US
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dc.type.genre Technical Report
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local.contributor.author Liu, Ling
local.contributor.corporatename College of Computing
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