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Sybil attack

A Sybil attack is a type of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service's reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence. It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity…

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Sybil attack

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related to External links · 67
Sybil attack → ACM Computing, Adrian, Alan, An, Attack, Bazzi, Chris, Christian Damsgaard, Cite, CiteSeerX, Computer Science, Daniele, Dawn, DHT, DHT Security Techniques, Distributed Computing, Elaine, Encouraging Self-recommendations Without Sybil, Foes, Friends
related to Description · 9
Sybil attack → An, As, BitTorrent Mainline DHT, By, Entities, In, More, Sybil, The Sybil
related to Identity validation · 9
Sybil attack → An, In, IP, Practical, SMS, Sybil, These, Use, Validation
related to Social trust graphs · 9
Sybil attack → Advogato Trust Metric, Examples, In, P2P, Sybil, SybilGuard, SybilLimit, SybilRank, These
related to Example · 8
Sybil attack → Bitcoin, BTCMITM20, SSL, Sybil, The, There, This, Tor
related to Application-specific defenses · 7
Sybil attack → DSybil, I2P's, Kademlia, SumUp, Sybil, Sybil-resistant, Whānau
related to Economic costs · 5
Sybil attack → Alternatively, In Bitcoin, Investments, Proof, Sybil
related to Elimination Voting · 4
Sybil attack → Atomic Ownership Blockchains, Attackers, Each, Sybil
has prevention · 2
Sybil attack → Known, Sybil
is a · 1
Sybil attack → type of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service's reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to…

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sybil identity attack identities attacks network entity validation may used social trust local networks techniques 10 reputation peer-to-peer anonymity doi

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Sybil attackis atype of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service's reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to…0.90text
BitTorrent Mainline DHT.An entity on a peer-to-peer network is a piece of software that has access to local resourcesinstance ofevidence showed that large-scale Sybil attacks could be carried out in a very cheap and efficient way in extant realistic systems0.80text
SMS spoofing or IP address spoofinginstance ofor even to obtain many at low cost through techniques0.80text
storage or stake in existing cryptocurrency may similarly be used to impose economic costs.Elimination VotingAtomic Ownership Blockchains thwart Sybil attacks through its decentralized architecture of independent micro-private chains per atomic assetinstance ofInvestments in other resources0.80text
storage or stake in existing cryptocurrency may similarly be used to impose economic costsinstance ofInvestments in other resources0.80text
Sybil attackhas preventionKnown0.60section
Sybil attackhas preventionSybil0.60section
Sybil attackrelated to Application-specific defensesSybil0.60section
Sybil attackrelated to Application-specific defensesSumUp0.60section
Sybil attackrelated to Application-specific defensesDSybil0.60section
Sybil attackrelated to Application-specific defensesSybil-resistant0.60section
Sybil attackrelated to Application-specific defensesWhānau0.60section

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