Scuttlebutt and Whuffie: Reputation in Distributed Networks
Description
Secure Scuttlebutt is a digital social network in which the network data is distributed among the users.<br/>This is done to secure several benefits, like offline browsing, censorship resistance, and to imitate natural social networks, but it comes with downsides, like the lack of an obvious implementation of a recommendation algorithm.<br/>This paper proposes Whuffie, an algorithm that tracks each user's reputation for having information that is interesting to a user using conditional probabilities.<br/>Some errors in the main Secure Scuttlebutt network prevent current large-scale testing of the usefulness of the algorithm, but testing on my own personal account led me to believe it a success.
Date Created
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2021-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Vermillion, Alexander J
- Thesis director: Bazzi, Rida
- Committee member: Richa, Andrea
- Contributor (ctb): Computer Science and Engineering Program
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College