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We introduce the notion of digital arbitration which enables resolving disputes between servers and users with the aid of arbitrators. Arbitrators are semi-trusted entities in a social network that facilitate communication or business transactions. The communicating parties, users and servers, agree before a communication transaction on a set of arbitrators that they trust (reputation systems may support their choice). Then, the arbitrators receive digital goods, e.g. a deposit, and a terms of use agreement between participants such that the goods of a participant are returned if and only if the participant acts according to the agreement.
This research has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Institute for Future Defense Technologies Research named for the Medvedi, Shwartzman and Gensler Families, the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), the Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, Rita Altura Trust Chair in Computer Science, Israel Science Foundation (grant number 428/11), Cabarnit Cyber Security MAGNET Consortium, MAFAT and Deutsche Telekom Labs at BGU. A poster presenting preliminary results of this work was presented in CCS ’11 [5].
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Dolev, S., Gilboa, N., Hermoni, O. (2012). Brief Announcement: Arbitrators in the Security Infrastructure. In: Richa, A.W., Scheideler, C. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33536-5_23
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