We consider a type of zero-knowledge protocols that are of interest for their practical applications within networks like the Internet: efficient zero-knowledge arguments of knowl...
Multicast communication is becoming the basis for a growing number of applications. It is therefore critical to provide sound security mechanisms for multicast communication. Yet, ...
Ran Canetti, Juan A. Garay, Gene Itkis, Daniele Mi...
This paper presents a new identity based key agreement protocol. In id-based cryptography (introduced by Adi Shamir in [33]) each party uses its own identity as public key and rece...
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 a f...
Although several wide-spread internet applications (e.g., job-referral services, dating services) can benefit from online matchmaking, protocols defined over the past two decade...