Multiparty nonrepudiation: A survey

  • Authors:
  • Jose A. Onieva;Jianying Zhou;Javier Lopez

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain;Institute for Infocomm Research, South Tower, Singapore;University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nonrepudiation is a security service that plays an important role in many Internet applications. Traditional two-party nonrepudiation has been studied intensively in the literature. This survey focuses on multiparty scenarios and provides a comprehensive overview. It starts with a brief introduction of fundamental issues on nonrepudiation, including the types of nonrepudiation service and cryptographic evidence, the roles of trusted third-party, nonrepudiation phases and requirements, and the status of standardization. Then it describes the general multiparty nonrepudiation problem, and analyzes state-of-the-art mechanisms. After this, it presents in more detail the 1-N multiparty nonrepudiation solutions for distribution of different messages to multiple recipients. Finally, it discusses advanced solutions for two typical multiparty nonrepudiation applications, namely, multiparty certified email and multiparty contract signing.