GO-E-MON: A New Online Platform for Decentralized Cognitive Science

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Some aspects concerning security should be clarified as described below.

p. 3 line 148-149: The fact that only a user to which a channel is disclosed can encrypt it implies that a secret key has to be shared. How is this key securely transferred between users?

p. 5 line 214-217: what if the user forgets or fails to release the data? Is there a timeout after which the data is delected from the Result Store? As you describe later, the time for which the data is kept on the Result Store is in the normal case only a few minutes and should be as short as possible for security reasons.

p. 12 line 412-415: what is the difference between sending the data to the experimenter's account and just sharing it with the experimenter? In both cases, the experimenter gets access to the data.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This article presents GO-E-MON: "A new online platform for decentralized cognitive". I have few questions about your system/service

Q1: L 412: Pseudonymization function usually consumes time in terms of computation and gives the pseudonymized result. How did you select what to anonymize and what not? What criteria have you based on?

Q2: How does GO-E-MON deal with user-sensitive information? [.... “oil field”....data-intensive science]? Do you collect any of them or at which level is it collected?

Q3: What is the mechanism have you put in place in case of data-owner corruption, theft, or damage?

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,

Thank you for the replies to my comments - All the  best