Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures with Offline Trusted Third Party

  • Authors:
  • Chuan-Kun Wu;Vijay Varadharajan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICICS '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we show how fair exchange of digital signatures can be made possible without a separate verifiable encryption. This means that the fair exchange protocol can be established based on an existing signature algorithm without modification, except that the users need to get a ticket from an off-line trusted third party to enable the fair exchange. The trusted third party is needed to make a judgment only when there is a dispute. Explicit protocols based on different digital signature algorithms are proposed.