A multi-party contract signing protocol allows a set of participants to exchange messages with each other with a view to arriving in a state in which each of them has a pre-agreed...
Credit card transactions are a popular and diffused means of payment over the network. Unfortunately, current technology does not allow us to technically solve disputes that may ...
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...
Meadows recently proposed a formal cost-based framework for analysis of denial of service. It was showed how some principles that have already been used to make cryptographic prot...
Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...