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Multi-party fair exchange protocol

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In cryptography, a multi-party fair exchange protocol is protocol where parties accept to deliver an item if and only if they receive an item in return.[1]

Definition

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Matthew K. Franklin and Gene Tsudik suggested in 1998[2] the following classification:

  • An -party single-unit general exchange is a permutation on , where each party offers a single unit of commodity to , and receives a single unit of commodity from .
  • An -party multi-unit general exchange is a matrix of baskets, where the entry in row and column is the basket of goods given by to .

See also

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Secure multi-party computation

References

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  1. ^ Mukhamedov, Aybek; Kremer, Steve; Ritter, Eike. "Analysis of a Multi-Party Fair Exchange Protocol and Formal Proof of Correctness in the Strand Space model". Financial Crypto. 2005.
  2. ^ Franklin, Matthew K.; Tsudik, Gene (1998). "Secure group barter: Multi-party fair exchange with semi-trusted neutral parties". Financial Cryptography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1465. pp. 90–102. doi:10.1007/BFb0055475. ISBN 978-3-540-64951-9.