: This paper addresses the security of optimistic fair exchange in a multi-user setting. While the security of public key encryption and public key signature schemes in a single-us...
In this work, we propose a new platform to enable service providers, such as web site operators, on the Internet to block past abusive users of anonymizing networks (for example, T...
Auditability is an important property in nancial systems and architectures. Here we de ne the primitive of blind auditable membership proof" BAMP which combines public auditab...
Assuming a cryptographically strong cyclic group G of prime order q and a random hash function H, we show that ElGamal encryption with an added Schnorr signature is secure against ...
In a group signature [19], any group member can sign on behalf of the group while remaining anonymous, but its identity can be traced in an future dispute investigation. Essentiall...