A Peer-to-Peer Access Control Management Based on Web of Trust

Trust is considered to be a powerful approach for managing access control in P2P (Peer-to-Peer)network. In this paper, we present a P2P access control management architecture based on web of trust, a web of mutual trust relationships among peers.In our architecture, whether a client peer is granted access right or not depends on its global trust value which is computed by aggregating the recommendation from friend peers. Our proposed approach focus on the collaboration among peers and its ideas are practicable.

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