Abstract. We provide a new characterization of certain zero-knowledge protocols as non-interactive instance-dependent commitment-schemes (NIC). To obtain this result we consider th...
The software engineering community has introduced component and connector concepts to support architecture-based software descriptions. However, there still exists a gap in transi...
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
In grid environment, there are many administrative domains, each domain has its own CA, and entities in different domains need authentication when accessing each other. The OCSP (...
In commercial transactions, an intermediary might be involved to help transacting parties to conduct their business. Nevertheless, the intermediary may not be fully trusted. In th...
Jose Antonio Onieva, Jianying Zhou, Mildrey Carbon...