Dear security specialists,
I think to have some elements potentially harmful for the validity of scientific peer-review system.
Broadly speaking, the idea would be to open a channel of communication between reviewer and submitter, allowing submitter to "bid" using cryptomoney for having a better chance of publication.
I am not sure it would be a good idea to go into details, neither I am of the validity of said attack. So I will be glad to have some PM exchange with someone from the security community who could give me some insight on what I could do which wouldn't be too stupid.
I am genuinely curious about the validity of said attack, because I spent some time to design a formal model precise enough to worth sharing. A set of S1..Sk submitter, a set of R1..Rn reviewers.
Each submitter is supposed to send a publication to a random subset of reviewers. The publication is monitored before being sent to reviewer to evaluate an attempt of attack. So it deals with the cost function of an automatic monitoring.
Thank you!