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CONCUR
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Contract Signing, Optimism, and Advantage
Abstract. A contract signing protocol lets two parties exchange digital signatures on a pre-agreed text. Optimistic contract signing protocols enable the signers to do so without i...
Rohit Chadha, John C. Mitchell, Andre Scedrov, Vit...
PODC
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Optimal Efficiency of Optimistic Contract Signing
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...
MANSCI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment
After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
Erica L. Plambeck, Terry A. Taylor
CSFW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Compositional Analysis of Contract Signing Protocols
We develop a general method for proving properties of contract-signing protocols using a specialized protocol logic. The method is applied to the Asokan-ShoupWaidner and the Garay...
Michael Backes, Anupam Datta, Ante Derek, John C. ...
JCS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Analysis of probabilistic contract signing
We present three case studies, investigating the use of probabilistic model checking to automatically analyse properties of probabilistic contract signing protocols. We use the pr...
Gethin Norman, Vitaly Shmatikov