Logo image
An Asynchronous Optimistic Protocol for Atomic Multi-Two-Party Contract Signing
Journal article   Peer reviewed

An Asynchronous Optimistic Protocol for Atomic Multi-Two-Party Contract Signing

Gerard Draper-Gil, Josep-Lluís Ferrer-Gomila, M Hinarejos and Jianying Zhou
Computer journal, Vol.56(10), pp.1258-1267
01/10/2013

Abstract

Consumers Contracts Digital signatures Protocol
The advances in the digital world (e.g. the Internet, Communications, etc.) are closing the gap between consumers and providers, in both Business to Consumer and Business to Business environments. Through the Internet, providers can offer their products directly to consumers, which increase their choices and allow them to contract a set of different services/products from different providers. But sometimes the consumer needs an all-or-nothing exchange with these providers: an atomic exchange. The consumer has negotiated/obtained a set of conditions that are only met if she acquires all the services/products. Thus, we need an Atomic Multi-Two-Party contract signing protocol. Even though digital signature of contracts is a topic that has been widely studied, it lacks a solution when applied to Atomic Multi-Two-Party scenarios. Here, we propose the first solution to solve this problem. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Metrics

1 Record Views

Details

Logo image