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Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics

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The Internet is an amazingly powerful tool for connecting people together, unmatched in human history. Yet, with that power comes great potential for spam and abuse. Trust metrics are an attempt to compute the set of which people are trustworthy and which are likely attackers. This chapter presents two specific trust metrics developed and deployed on the Advogato Website, which is a community blog for free software developers. This real-world experience demonstrates that the trust metrics fulfilled their goals, but that for good results, it is important to match the assumptions of the abstract trust metric computation to the real-world implementation.

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    Raph Levien

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Levien, R. (2009). Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics. In: Golbeck, J. (eds) Computing with Social Trust. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_5

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