@inproceedings{4c7417a1883048cab2b5e6abe30171fd,
title = "Genuine Personal Identifiers and Mutual Sureties for Sybil-Resilient Community Growth",
abstract = "Observing its lack, we introduce the notion of a genuine personal identifier—a globally unique and singular identifier of a person—and present a foundation for a decentralized, grassroots, bottom-up process by which every human being may create, own, and protect the privacy of a genuine personal identifier. Our solution is based on a web-of-trust and is designed for a distributed realization; we apply graph-theoretic notions to show that digital communities can grow indefinitely while ensuring bounded sybil penetration.",
keywords = "Digital communities, Social networks, Sybil attacks",
author = "Gal Shahaf and Ehud Shapiro and Nimrod Talmon",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. Ehud Shapiro is the Incumbent of The Harry Weinrebe Professorial Chair of Computer Science and Biology. We thank the generous support of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities. Nimrod Talmon was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF; Grant No. 630/19). Funding Information: Ehud Shapiro is the Incumbent of The Harry Weinrebe Professorial Chair of Computer Science and Biology. We thank the generous support of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities. Nimrod Talmon was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF; Grant No. 630/19). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 12th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2020 ; Conference date: 06-10-2020 Through 09-10-2020",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-60975-7_24",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030609740",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "320--332",
editor = "Samin Aref and Kalina Bontcheva and Marco Braghieri and Frank Dignum and Fosca Giannotti and Francesco Grisolia and Dino Pedreschi",
booktitle = "Social Informatics - 12th International Conference, SocInfo 2020, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}