Off-Line Fair Payment Protocols Using Convertible Signatures

  • Authors:
  • Colin Boyd;Ernest Foo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ASIACRYPT '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security: Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

An exchange or payment protocol is considered fair if neither of the two parties exchanging items or payment at any time during the protocol has a significant advantage over the other entity. Fairness is an important property for electronic commerce. This paper identifies a design framework based on existing fair protocols which use offline trusted third parties, but with convertible signatures as the underlying mechanism. We show that in principle any convertible signature scheme can be used to design a fair payment protocol. A specific protocol is detailed based on RSA undeniable signatures which is more efficient than other similar fair payment schemes. Furthermore, in this protocol the final signature obtained is always an ordinary RSA signature.