An Attack on a Protocol for Certified Delivery

  • Authors:
  • José R. M. Monteiro;Ricardo Dahab

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISC '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Security
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show that the protocol for certified mail delivery of Ferrer-Gomila and others [2] may exhibit contradictory behavior when the recipient is not well behaved. As a consequence, properties such as non-repudiation of reception and fairness may not hold. We also present a solution for this weakness which has minimal cost.