Secure multi-attribute procurement auction

  • Authors:
  • Koutarou Suzuki;Makoto Yokoo

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan;Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • WISA'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information Security Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a secure multi-attribute procurement auction, in which a sales item is defined by several attributes called quality, the buyer is the auctioneer (e.g., a government), and the sellers are the bidders. Our goal is to develop a protocol in which acting honestly is a dominant strategy for sellers and that does not leak the true cost of the sellers, which is highly classified information that the sellers want to keep private. We first present a Vickrey-type protocol that can be used for multi-attribute procurement auctions. Next, we show how this protocol can be executed securely.