Flaw and modification of the iKP electronic payment protocols

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhiro Ogata;Kokichi Futatsugi

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Software Hokuriku, Ltd., Japan and Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsuokuchi, Noubi-gun, Ishikawa 923-1211, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsuokuchi, Noubi-gun, Ishikawa 923-1211, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We found that the 2KP/3KP electronic payment protocols as well as the 1KP electronic payment protocol do not possess a probably important property. The property is that if an acquirer authorizes a payment, then both the buyer and seller concerned always agree on it, which is called agreement property in this article. We also propose a modification to have 2KP/3KP possess the property.