Abstract:
Obtaining user feedback using votes is essential in ranking user-generated online content. However, any online voting system is susceptible to the Sybil
attack where adversaries can out-vote real users by creating several Sybil
identities. In this talk, I will present SumUp, a Sybil-resilient online
content voting system that leverages trust networks among users to defend against Sybil attacks with strong security guarantees.
SumUp addresses the basic vote aggregation problem of how to collect
votes from different users in a trust network in the face of Sybil
identities casting an arbitrarily large number of bogus votes. We introduce the technique of adaptive vote flow aggregation that allows
SumUp to significantly limit the number of bogus votes cast by
adversaries to no more than the number of attack edges in the trust
network with high probability. By applying SumUp on the voting trace
of Digg (online news voting site), we have detected strong evidence of
attack on many articles marked “popular” by Digg.
Bio of the Speaker
Jinyang Li is an assistant professor in computer science at New York University. Her research interests are in distributed systems and networks.
Currently, she is working on building flexible distributed storage
systems and securing open systems by leveraging the underlying trust
network among users. Jinyang received a Ph.D. from MIT in 2005 and
was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley from 2005-2006.
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