Experience with an object reputation system for peer-to-peer filesharing 论文

摘要

1 Introduction Establishing trust is a fundamental problem in distributedsystems. Peer-to-peer systems, in which service functionality is distributed across clients, eliminate the cen-tralized components that have traditionally functioned as de facto trust brokers, and consequently exacerbate trust-related problems. When peers lack meaningful measures on which to base trust decisions, they end up receivingservices from untrustworthy peers, with e ffects that canrange from wasted resources on mislabeled content to