Privacy and anonymity protection with blind threshold signatures

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-157

  Juang, Wen Shenq ^a   Lei, Chin Laung ^b   Liaw, Horng Twu ^a  

^a SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Anonymous payment systems; Blind signatures; Privacy; Secure voting systems; Security; Threshold signatures

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649933265     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10864415.2002.11044266     Document Type: Article

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