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A Survey Study on Reputation-Based Trust Management in P2P Networks Siddharth Maini Department of Computer Science Kent State University Kent, OH 44240 E-mail: smaini@ Abstract In this survey study I have outlined various issues involved in the design of reputation-based peer-to-peer (P2P) system. The survey can be used as a reference guide in a hope to make the P2P systems based on trust management mode more reliable, trustworthy and scalable. The survey presents a study of reputation-based P2P systems currently in use. It takes the example of decentralized unstructured P2P systems such as Gnutella, Kazaa, Fast Track, and SETI etc. The trust management in P2P systems is used in isolating malicious peers and to promote honest transactions between genuine peers. Reputation-based P2P systems have the property to detect such malicious peers using the reputation of the peer(s) providing the resource(s). Keywords Peer-to-Peer, Trust, Management, Reputation-based, Networks, Survey, P2P 1. Introduction A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a group of Computer nodes which construct their own open unrestricted sharing networks on top of the Internet architecture. Such a system performs application-level routing on top of IP routing. The users (peers) have dual functionality i.e. they are free to join the network and share their resources by functioning as clients when they need to download and they can function as a server when they need to serve resources to other users. Due to the distributed nature of P2P systems there is no central point of attack but such kind of an architecture makes P2P networks very prone to