Abstract. Naor and Pinkas introduced metering schemes at Eurocrypt ’98 in order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers. In the schemes, any server should be able to cons...
In order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers, Naor and Pinkas introduced (threshold) metering schemes secure against coalitions of corrupt servers and clients. They sho...
—Outsourcing the fabrication of semiconductor devices to merchant foundries raises some issues concerning the IP protection of the design. Active hardware metering schemes try to...
Roel Maes, Dries Schellekens, Pim Tuyls, Ingrid Ve...
This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing...
Abstract. It is almost a folklore-knowledge that hash-based time-stamping schemes are secure if the underlying hash function is collisionresistant but still no rigorous proofs have...