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...
Special purpose trusted computing devices are currently being deployed to offer many services for which the general purpose computing paradigm is unsuitable. The nature of the ser...
Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Alexander Russell...
Classical distributed protocols like broadcast or multi-party computation provide security as long as the number of malicious players f is bounded by some given threshold t, i.e., ...
Matthias Fitzi, Martin Hirt, Thomas Holenstein, J&...
In trust negotiation and other distributed proving systems, networked entities cooperate to form proofs that are justified by collections of certified attributes. These attributes...
Query answers from on-line databases can easily be corrupted by hackers or malicious database publishers. Thus it is important to provide mechanisms which allow clients to trust th...
Charles U. Martel, Glen Nuckolls, Premkumar T. Dev...