Trust Management in a Friend-to-Friend Network

Abstract

Trusting a person that one has not had any collaboration with is risky, but when there is a trust relationship the feeling of being vulnerable or that others can take advantage of the trustee will not be there. Moreover, a trusted friend can equally change and become dubious since trust is not immutable and it changes from time to time. There is a need for mechanisms that will guarantee and enforce normative behaviours and at the same time, increase online collaboration by stimulating potential users’ trust towards the friends on the network. This research leveraged on Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and the Symmetric Replication Technique (SRT) to ensure availability of trust data for trust computation. To be able to use the DHT and the SRT, the concept of trustworthiness was conceptualized and operationalized into personal trust, reputational trust and recommendation trust. The architecture of the Trust Aware Model deployed on the F2F network, performed the function of peer trust update with respect to a peer’s collaborating level of trustworthiness thereby enabling effective management of trust in an F2F network that will bring about a robust F2F collaboration. Keywords: Trust Management, Collaborative Model, Distributed Hash Table, Symmetric Replication Techniques CISDI Journal Reference Format Aderibigbe, O.S. (2022): Trust Management in a Friend-to-Friend Network. Computing, Information Systems, Development Informatics & Allied Research Journal. Vol 13 No 2. Pp 73-.80. Available online at www.computing-infosystemsjournal.info CrossREF DOI No - dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CISDI/V13N2P7