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This method offloads microtasks to edge servers whose trust needs to be identified, and then quickly identifies the trust of edge servers according to the completion of tasks by edge servers. Based on the identification of the trust, tasks can be offloaded to trusted edge servers, to improve the success rate of tasks. (b) Although the trust of edge servers can be identified by our detection, it needs to pay a price. Therefore, to maximize system revenue, searching the most suitable number of trusted edge servers for various conditions is transformed into an optimization problem. Finally, theoretical and experimental analysis shows the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, which can effectively identify the trusted and untrusted edge servers. 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