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Expressive Rating Scheme by Signatures with Predications on Ratees

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Reputation boards are popular tools because of their useful information of products for consumers. In this paper, we propose a rating scheme for the reputation boards. The feature of our rating scheme is that it enables users to rate not only products but also their providers expressively by using digital signatures with predications on ratees. First, we define a syntax of such an expressive rating scheme. Then, we provide a generic conversion of a cryptographic primitive called an attribute-based signature scheme (ABS) into an expressive rating scheme. Using a boolean formula on attributes of ratees, signatures with predications on ratees are generated, which we call expressive ratings. Public linkability of ABS is effectively used to prohibit double ratings. Also, employing an ABS scheme of the Fiat-Shamir type, we construct a concrete efficient expressive rating scheme.

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Acknowledgements

Concerning the first author, this work is partially supported by a Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) JP15K00029 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Concerning the third author, this work is partially supported by a Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) JP15H02711 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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  1. Department of Information Security, University of Nagasaki, W408, 1-1-1, Manabino, Nagayo-cho, Nishisonogi-gun, Nagasaki, 851-2195, Japan

    Hiroaki Anada

  2. R.C. Bose Center for Cryptology and Security, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, No 921, S.N. Bose Bhavan, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata, 700108, India

    Sushmita Ruj

  3. Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, W2-712, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Kouichi Sakurai

  4. Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, 7F, Fukuoka SRP Center Bldg. 2-1-22, Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0001, Japan

    Kouichi Sakurai

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  1. Central China Normal University , Wuhan, China

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  2. Università degli Studi di Milano , Crema (CR), Italy

    Vincenzo Piuri

  3. Osaka University , Osaka, Japan

    Chunhua Su

  4. Columbia University , New York, New York, USA

    Moti Yung

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Anada, H., Ruj, S., Sakurai, K. (2016). Expressive Rating Scheme by Signatures with Predications on Ratees. In: Chen, J., Piuri, V., Su, C., Yung, M. (eds) Network and System Security. NSS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46298-1_24

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