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A Mobile Agent System Providing Offer Privacy

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2004)

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Abstract

In a shopping mobile agent scenario where the agent, on behalf of its owner, collects prices (offers) from vendors’ servers, offer privacy is one of the major security concerns. In this paper, we propose a framework to achieve offer privacy. The framework can be implemented in an e-market environment where an e-market manager plays the role of authority. Based on the framework, a “hash chained group signature” scheme that employs a group signature scheme and a chaining relationship is proposed. The offer privacy can be reversed, with the assistance of the e-market manager, when a server’s identity needs to be revealed.

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  1. Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia

    Ming Yao, Matt Henricksen, Greg Maitland, Ernest Foo & Ed Dawson

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  1. Centre for Advanced Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

    Huaxiong Wang

  2. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia

    Josef Pieprzyk

  3. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Vijay Varadharajan

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Yao, M., Henricksen, M., Maitland, G., Foo, E., Dawson, E. (2004). A Mobile Agent System Providing Offer Privacy. In: Wang, H., Pieprzyk, J., Varadharajan, V. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27800-9_26

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27800-9_26

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