Paper 2023/464 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2023/464 ↗

A Generic Construction of an Anonymous Reputation System and Instantiations from Lattices

Johannes Blömer
Jan Bobolz
Laurens Porzenheim
Abstract

With an anonymous reputation system one can realize the process of rating sellers anonymously in an online shop. While raters can stay anonymous, sellers still have the guarantee that they can be only be reviewed by raters who bought their product. We present the first generic construction of a reputation system from basic building blocks, namely digital signatures, encryption schemes, non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, and linking indistinguishable tags. We then show the security of the reputation system in a strong security model. Among others, we instantiate the generic construction with building blocks based on lattice problems, leading to the first module lattice-based reputation system in the random oracle model.

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Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2024-02-09: last updated
2023-03-30: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/464
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/464,
      author = {Johannes Blömer and Jan Bobolz and Laurens Porzenheim},
      title = {A Generic Construction of an Anonymous Reputation System and Instantiations from Lattices},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/464},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/464}
}
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