—Vehicular networks face a typical quandary in their requirement for communications that are at once secure and private. While the messages broadcast between vehicles and between...
Coin flipping is one of the most fundamental tasks in cryptographic protocol design. Informally, a coin flipping protocol should guarantee both (1) Completeness: an honest executi...
This paper presents a new fair document exchange protocol based on bilinear pairing with off-line trusted third party (TTP). In such a fair exchange scenario, each party owns a va...
With the phenomenal growth of the Internet and open networks in general, security services, such as non-repudiation, become crucial to many applications. Nonrepudiation services m...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...