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# Open Reputation: The Decentralized Reputation Platform

A 10-page high-level companion paper from 2015 describing Open Reputation as an open source decentralized platform that maps identity and reputation onto the Internet of Things, with pseudonymous identities gathering encrypted, shareable reputation in a public database anchored to a blockchain. Its sections cover open source, topology, identity, reputation, relation, decentralization and privacy. It is the non-technical counterpart to the Open Reputation Framework paper.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/open-reputation-high-level-whitepaper.pdf (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).