Exclusion-Freeness in Multi-party Exchange Protocols

  • Authors:
  • Nicolás González-Deleito;Olivier Markowitch

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

In this paper we define a property for multi-party protocols called exclusion-freeness. In multi-party protocols respecting the strongest definition of this property, participants are sure that they will not be excluded from a protocol's execution and, consequently, they do not have to trust each other any more. We study this property on a well-known multi-party fair exchange protocol with an online trusted third party and we point out two attacks on this protocol breaking the fairness property and implying excluded participants. Finally, we propose a new multi-party fair exchange protocol with an online trusted third party respecting the strong exclusion-freeness property.