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Offer Privacy in Mobile Agents Using Conditionally Anonymous Digital Signatures

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Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (TrustBus 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3184))

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For a shopping mobile agent that collects offers from vendors’ servers on behalf of its owner, offer privacy is an important property. In this paper, we propose a protocol using a “conditionally anonymous digital signature scheme” to achieve offer privacy based on a fair blind signature. The proposed scheme provides a method for a server to sign its offer without revealing any information about its identity to any other server or the originator. When a server’s identity needs to be revealed, the offer privacy can be reversed, with the assistance of the e-market authority.

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

    Ming Yao, Matt Henricksen, Ernest Foo & Ed Dawson

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  1. Ming Yao
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  1. Dept. of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 150 Androutsou St., GR-18532, Pireaus, Greece

    Sokratis Katsikas

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, Spain

    Javier Lopez

  3. University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany

    Günther Pernul

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Yao, M., Henricksen, M., Foo, E., Dawson, E. (2004). Offer Privacy in Mobile Agents Using Conditionally Anonymous Digital Signatures. In: Katsikas, S., Lopez, J., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust and Privacy in Digital Business. TrustBus 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30079-3_14

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30079-3_14

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-22919-3

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