A protocol for secure transactions

  • Authors:
  • Douglas H. Steves;Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan;Mohamed Gouda

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • WOEC'96 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Proceedings of the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Secure transactions form the computational basis for electronic commerce. Many forms of commerce depend upon there being a defined and verifiable relationship between messages in a transaction. We have identified three such relational properties: causality, atomicity and isolation. Causality is a new property. It allows the receiver of a message to deduce and verify the sequence of messages sent and received by the sender prior to that message. In this paper we present a secure transaction protocol that provides relational properties in addition to the normal properties of secure messages.