An Optimistic Payment Protocol with Mobile Agents in Hostile Environments

Author

Liu, Yi ; Ding, Yong

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 May 2011

Firstpage

218

Lastpage

222

Abstract

Mobile agents are autonomous software entities that are able to migrate across different execution environments. The characteristics of mobile agents make them ideal for electronic commerce applications in open networks. Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper, using Pedersen´s verifiable secret sharing scheme and the theory of cross validation we propose a payment protocol with the following features: (1) protect the confidentiality of sensitive payment information from spying by malicious hosts, (2) use a trusted third party in a minimal way, (3) can verify the validity of the share by the merchant, (4) allows agent to verify that the product which he is about to receive is the one he is paying for.

Keywords

cryptographic protocols; data privacy; electronic commerce; mobile agents; autonomous software entities; cross-validation theory; electronic commerce application; hostile environment; malicious hosts; mobile agents; open networks; optimistic payment protocol; sensitive payment information confidentiality; trusted third party; verifiable secret sharing scheme; Catalogs; Electronic commerce; Mobile agents; Protocols; Public key; Pedersen¡¯s verifiable secret sharing; electronic commerce; mobile agent; payment protocol; the theory of cross validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Information Security (NCIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-347-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCIS.2011.50

Filename

5948719