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BibliographyKinateder, Michael; Rothermel, Kurt: Bringing Confidence to the Web - Combining the Power of SET and Reputation Systems.
In: Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference: CCNC 2004; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 5-8, 2004.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 545-550, english.
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: IEEE Communications Society, January 2004.
ISBN: 0-7803-8145-9.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationIEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference: CCNC 2004
CR-SchemaC.2.0 (Computer-Communication Networks, General)
C.2.4 (Distributed Systems)
K.4.4 (Electronic Commerce)
K.6.5 (Security and Protection)
Keywordstrust; reputation; reputation system; recommendation; recommendation system; payment; payment system; SET; secure electronic transaction
Abstract

Reputation systems suffer from easy copying of recommendations and recommenders attaching themselves to trustworthy recommenders to benefit from their good reputation. Electronic commerce in general and electronic payment systems in particular suffer from the uncertainty of potential customers about the reputation of online merchants and the quality of the offered goods or services. In this paper we address these issues to a certain degree by creating an originality statement in the payment process that is included in recommendations to prove, that a particular recommendation is indeed linked to a real world transaction. We present the initial protocol and two variations and discuss their distinct features. Although the protocol is described working in conjunction with the SET payment scheme, it is easily applicable to other payment systems with the features outlined in this paper.

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ContactMichael Kinateder kinateder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)UniTEC
Entry dateFebruary 6, 2004
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