An improved e-commerce protocol for fair exchange

  • Authors:
  • Debajyoti Konar;Chandan Mazumdar

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Engg & Management, Kolkata, India;Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

  • Venue:
  • ICDCIT'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, an improved fair exchange protocol for e-commerce has been presented. The new protocol builds upon a previously published one by Ray & Ray [12]. After discussing the protocol and related fairness, four weaknesses have been found, viz., Fairness Problem: Advantage Merchant, Fairness Problem: Advantage Customer, Possibility of Man in the Middle Attack and Possibility of Malicious Bank. Our modified fair exchange e-commerce protocol is able to handle these weaknesses. The proposed protocol does not involve third party to ensure the fairness.