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Three-Round Abuse-Free Optimistic Contract Signing with Everlasting Secrecy

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2010)

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We introduce the novel notion of Verifiable Encryption of Chameleon Signatures (VECS), and then use it to design a three-round abuse-free optimistic contract signing protocol.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Xidian University, P.R. China

    Xiaofeng Chen

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China

    Fangguo Zhang & Haibo Tian

  3. Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia

    Qianhong Wu

  4. Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, P.R. China

    Qianhong Wu

  5. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Yi Mu

  6. Department of Computer Science, Kaist, Korea

    Jangseong Kim & Kwangjo Kim

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  1. Computer Science Department, Stony Brook, Stony Brook University, 11794, NY, USA

    Radu Sion

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Chen, X. et al. (2010). Three-Round Abuse-Free Optimistic Contract Signing with Everlasting Secrecy. In: Sion, R. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14577-3_23

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