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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.
J. Blömer, F. Eidens, and J. Juhnke—This author was partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Centre On-The-Fly Computing (SFB 901).
J. Blömer and J. Juhnke—This author was partially supported by the Ministry of Education and Research, grant 16SV7055, project “KogniHome”.
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Blömer, J., Eidens, F., Juhnke, J. (2018). Practical, Anonymous, and Publicly Linkable Universally-Composable Reputation Systems. In: Smart, N. (eds) Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2018. CT-RSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10808. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76953-0_25
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