Abstract

Over the last decade, online reputation has become a central aspect of our digital lives. Most online services and communities assign a reputation score to users, based on feedback from other users about various criteria such as how reliable, helpful, or knowledgeable a person is. While many online services compute reputation based on the same set of such criteria, users currently do not have the ability to use their reputation scores across services. As a result, users face trouble establishing themselves on new services or trusting each other on services that do not support reputation tracking. Existing systems that aggregate reputation scores, unfortunately, provide no guarantee in terms of user privacy, and their use makes user accounts linkable. Such a lack of privacy may result in embarrassment, or worse, place users in danger.
In this paper, we present Street Rep, a practical system for aggregating user …

Date

2023

Authors

Christophe Hauser, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ni Trieu, Srivatsan Ravi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

Book

International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems

Pages

345-368

Publisher

Springer Nature Switzerland