An Online Verifiable Rating System Based on Unverified Rating Output (URTO)

Abstract

Ratings online are often listed alongside product recommendations, but to date, limited attention has been paid as to how credible these ratings present to end-users. For lack of an effective rating verification scheme, a cheater could fabricate some high ratings and the recommended product usually does not match the corresponding ratings. To make ratings verifiable, we encapsulate each rating into a specific structure whose core is unverified rating output (URTO) that we propose. The URTO is designed based on unspent transaction output (UTXO) in Bitcoin. On this foundation, we propose the online verifiable rating system. Our system can make ratings verifiable and the evaluated validation and mining time of a rating by the whole network peers demonstrate the high reliability of our system.