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A Fair Electronic Contract Signing Protocol Based on Off-Line Trusted Third Party

Meiling Liu

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

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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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.
This work presents a novel protocol for fair exchange of DSA-based signatures to support an e-commerce activity of digital contract signing. The protocol employs an off-line semitrusted third party (STTP), which participates in the protocol execution only in exceptional circumstances and which involvement in the protocol is transparent. The protocol can tolerate the STTP's own misbehaviour (i.e. if it does not collude with other participants of the protocol) and it prevents the STTP from gaining the exchanged signatures or the signed document. The protocol is based on the principle of verifiable and recoverable signature encryption, and in comparison with related protocols is more efficient.
Based on Zhang's short signature scheme without random oracles and k+1-square roots assumption, a new fair contract signing protocol with the off-line semi-Trusted Third Party is given because the disadvantages of existed fair contract signing protocol. The off-line semi-TTP intervenes into the protocol in cases where one party attempts to cheat or simply crashes to make the fair exchange optimistic. The off-line TTP need not be completely trusted, since the TTP can get neither exchanged signature when dispute is mediated. Because this protocol is based on short signature, which needs low storage and little communication, it can be used in low-bandwidth communication and low-storage environments.
Due to the widespread use of electronic commerce and popularization,make mutual distrust to two or more parties rely on Internet information. Fair exchange protocol as the key password technology of electronic commerce,is crucial. Through the study of existing fair exchange protocol with classification,found some existing fair exchange protocol to third- party intervention. Based on RSA blind signature,this paper proposes a safe and efficient,but the actual operation of no the third party to participate in the fair electronic exchange protocol,for constructing a fair electronic payment protocols and fair electronic contract signing protocol provides a valid password tool.
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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