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Optimistic Fair Exchange Using Trusted Devices

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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009)

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Efficiency of optimistic fair exchange using trusted devices is studied. Pfitzmann, Schunter and Waidner (podc 1998) have shown that four messages in the main sub-protocol is optimal when exchanging idempotent items using non-trusted devices. It is straightforward that when using trusted devices for exchanging non-idempotent items this number can be reduced to three. This however comes at the cost of providing trusted devices with an unlimited amount of storage. We prove that exchanging non-idempotent items using trusted devices with a limited storage capacity requires exactly four messages in the main sub-protocol.

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    Mohammad Torabi Dashti

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Rachid Guerraoui

  2. LIP, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69236, Lyon cedex 07, France

    Franck Petit

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Torabi Dashti, M. (2009). Optimistic Fair Exchange Using Trusted Devices. In: Guerraoui, R., Petit, F. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05118-0_49

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