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Trust in Crowds: probabilistic behaviour in anonymity protocols

Trust in Crowds: probabilistic behaviour in anonymity protocols
Trust in Crowds: probabilistic behaviour in anonymity protocols
The existing analysis of the Crowds anonymity protocol assumes that a participating member is either ‘honest’ or ‘corrupted’. This paper generalises this analysis so that each member is assumed to maliciously disclose the identity of other nodes with a probability determined by her vulnerability to corruption. Within this model, the trust in a principal is defined to be the probability that she behaves honestly. We investigate the effect of such a probabilistic behaviour on the anonymity of the principals participating in the protocol, and formulate the necessary conditions to achieve ‘probable innocence’. Using these conditions, we propose a generalised Crowds-Trust protocol which uses trust information to achieves ‘probable innocence’ for principals exhibiting probabilistic behaviour.
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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El-Salamouny, Ehab
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Hamadou, Sardaouna
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El-Salamouny, Ehab
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Hamadou, Sardaouna
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Sassone, Vladimiro, El-Salamouny, Ehab and Hamadou, Sardaouna (2010) Trust in Crowds: probabilistic behaviour in anonymity protocols. Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing, TGC 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6084. pp. 88-102 .

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Abstract

The existing analysis of the Crowds anonymity protocol assumes that a participating member is either ‘honest’ or ‘corrupted’. This paper generalises this analysis so that each member is assumed to maliciously disclose the identity of other nodes with a probability determined by her vulnerability to corruption. Within this model, the trust in a principal is defined to be the probability that she behaves honestly. We investigate the effect of such a probabilistic behaviour on the anonymity of the principals participating in the protocol, and formulate the necessary conditions to achieve ‘probable innocence’. Using these conditions, we propose a generalised Crowds-Trust protocol which uses trust information to achieves ‘probable innocence’ for principals exhibiting probabilistic behaviour.

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Published date: April 2010
Venue - Dates: Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing, TGC 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6084, 2010-04-01
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268594
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268594
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Date deposited: 12 Mar 2010 11:28
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:14

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Author: Vladimiro Sassone
Author: Ehab El-Salamouny
Author: Sardaouna Hamadou

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