TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews

  • Rohit Dwivedula | University of Texas - Austin

Host: Kim Laine
Speaker: Rohit Dwivedula

Reviews and ratings by users form a central component in several widely used products today (e.g., product reviews, ranking content, etc.), but today’s platforms for managing such reviews are centralized, ad-hoc and vulnerable to various forms of tampering. TrustRate is an end-to-end decentralized, hijack-resistant platform for authentic, anonymous, tamper-proof reviews. With a prototype implementation and evaluation at the scale of thousands of nodes, we demonstrate the efficacy and performance of our platform, towards a new paradigm for building products based on trusted reviews by end users without having to trust a single organization that manages the reviews.

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