Trustworthy review system and method for legitimizing a review

A method for providing a legitimate customer review, the method comprising:

• receiving, via a service provider device, an authorization token, wherein the authorization token includes a message, a redactable signature, and an encoding of redactable parts of the message;
• redacting part of the message, based on the encoding of redactable parts, to create a redacted message;
• generating a redacted signature using the redactable signature;
• and
• providing the redacted message, the redacted signature, and a customer review to a review server.

A trustworthy review system for verifying that a customer review is legitimate, the system comprising a review server having one or more processors which, alone or in combination are configured to provide for performance of the following steps:

• receiving, via a service provider device, a verification key;
• receiving, via a customer device, a customer review, a redacted message, and a redacted signature;
• and
• at least one of:
• publishing the verification key and the redacted signature on a review website with the customer review such that the legitimacy of the redacted signature is checkable by a user device;
• or
• checking, using the verification key, whether the redacted signature is legitimate and, based on the redacted signature being legitimate, marking the customer review as being legitimate.