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IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN)

An efficient free fair contract signing protocol using OTPK

Bhagyashree Bodkhe, Pallavi Jain

Published Jul 1, 2013• 2 citations
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Abstract

Today in the field of security there are various protocols and authentication techniques that makes an application in the network more secure and free from various attacks in the network. There are various applications which require exchange of data between parties. A fair exchange is required since the chances of attacks have been greatly increased. Hence a new protocol has been implemented for the fair exchange of data between parties called contract signing protocol. Although there are various techniques applied for the security of these contract signing protocols such as using RSA [1]. This protocol use RSA to generate digital signature for the authentication of fair exchange between two parties, also in this technique instead of using single TTP (Trusted Third Party) and the trust can be distributed on multi TTP's. But the protocol implemented here in these techniques has less security issues and the chances of attack are more and also by using multiple TTP's storage cost is increased. Hence to overcome these limitations we propose an efficient and secure protocol of contract signing using OTPK (One Time Private Key). This technique requires less storage cost since there is no need to store any key at any end.

DOI
10.1109/wocn.2013.6616226

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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 afairway, so that either each of them obtains the other's signature, or neither party does. Based on the RSA signature scheme, a new digital contract-signing protocol is proposed in this paper. Like the existing RSA-based solutions for the same problem, our protocol is not only fair, but also optimistic, since the trusted third party is involved only in the situations where one party is cheating or the communication channel is interrupted. Furthermore, the proposed protocol satisfies a new property-abuse-freeness. That is, if the protocol is executed unsuccessfully, none of the two parties can show the validity of intermediate results to others. Technical details are provided to analyze the security and performance of the proposed protocol. In summary, we present the first abuse-free fair contract-signing protocol based on the RSA signature, and show that it is both secure and efficient.
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Electronic contract signing is an important issue in electronic commerce,while fair electronic contract signing protocol is an application model of fair exchange protocol,but there were defects in traditional fair electronic contract signing protocols.Presents a new fair electronic contract signing protocol based on the off-line trusted third party.The protocol effectively prevents all kinds of security attacks,and improves the efficiency of the implementation.The security of the newly devised scheme is also examined and proved.It is showed that fair processes of exchange activities are guaranteed in this protocol.
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Fair exchange of digital signatures is an important tool for signing digital contracts, e-payment and other electronic commerce actions. An ID-based scheme of fair exchange of digital signature is proposed in this paper. The protocol relies on a trusted third party, but is “optimistic”, in that the third party is only needed in cases where one player attempts to cheat or simply crashes. The proposed scheme has properties of short signature, low computation and verification cost. It can realize exchange of digital signatures fairly and efficiently. A key feature of our scheme is that it is identity-based, which needs no certificates and has a simple key management. To our best knowledge, this is the first identity-based scheme of fair exchange of digital signatures.
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