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Efficient Fair Exchange from Identity-Based Signature

Dae Hyun YUM, Pil Joong LEE

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A fair exchange scheme is a protocol by which two parties Alice and Bob exchange items or services without allowing either party to gain advantages by quitting prematurely or otherwise misbehaving. To this end, modern cryptographic solutions use a semi-trusted arbitrator who involves only in cases where one party attempts to cheat or simply crashes. We call such a fair exchange scheme optimistic. When no registration is required between the signer and the arbitrator, we say that the fair exchange scheme is setup-free. To date, the setup-free optimist fair exchange scheme under the standard RSA assumption was only possible from the generic construction of [12], which uses ring signatures. In this paper, we introduce a new setup-free optimistic fair exchange scheme under the standard RSA assumption. Our scheme uses the GQ identity-based signature and is more efficient than [12]. The construction can also be generalized by using various identity-based signature schemes. Our main technique is to allow each user to choose his (or her) own "random" public key in the identity-based signature scheme.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E91-A No.1 pp.119-126
Publication Date
2008/01/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.1.119
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
Category
Protocols

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