A synchronous multi-party contract signing protocol improving lower bound of steps

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 201, Issue , 2006, Pages 221-232

  Zhou, Jianying ^a   Onieva, Jose A ^b   Lopez, Javier ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

CONTRACT SIGNING; CONTRACT-SIGNING PROTOCOLS; DIGITAL WORLD; LOWER BOUNDS; TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33845540639     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-33406-8_19     Document Type: Article

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