Title :
Unfair coin tossing
Author :
Demay, Gregory ; Maurer, Ueli
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
An ideal coin tossing resource for two parties outputs the same random bit to both parties. We introduce the notion of an unfair coin tossing resource by relaxing both the fairness and the non-influenceability guarantees that an ideal coin toss would provide. The presence of this non-ideal behavior is necessary in order to understand what coin tossing protocols really achieve in the setting of two distrustful parties, since it is known that such an ideal coin tossing resource cannot be constructed whenever a majority of players is dishonest.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; coin tossing protocols; distrustful parties; fairness; nonideal behavior; noninfluenceability guarantees; random bit; unfair coin tossing resource; Abstracts; Communication channels; Cryptography; Protocols; Random variables;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620488