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   Rob Jansen, Ted Kaminski, Fedor Korsakov, Alexander Saint Croix, and Daniel Selifonov:

   Informal: A Priori Trust Vulnerabilities in EigenTrust. Unpublished report, 2008.

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   Abstract

   We review the motivations underlying the design of the EigenTrust algorithm for trust management in P2P file sharing networks, then illustrate through a simulated P2P network how EigenTrust’s reliance on pre-trusted peers undermines its other security requirements and can lead to severely compromised networks. We then explore a potential alternative to the use of pre-trusted peers, and demonstrate that EigenTrust can work without these vulnerable authorities.

   Bibtex

   @misc{fet-csci5271,
     title = {A Priori Trust Vulnerabilities in EigenTrust},
     author = {Jansen, Rob and Kaminski, Ted and Korsakov, Fedor and Croix, Alexander Saint and Selifonov, Daniel},
     year = {2008},
     howpublished = {Unpublished report},
     note = {Informal},
   }