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Unfairness of a protocol for certified delivery

Authors:
Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador
Almudena Alcaide
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/040
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Abstract: Recently, Nenadi\'c \emph{et al.} (2004) proposed the RSA-CEGD protocol for certified delivery of e-goods. This is a relatively complex scheme based on verifiable and recoverable encrypted signatures (VRES) to guarantee properties such as strong fairness and non-repudiation, among others. In this paper, we demonstrate how this protocol cannot achieve fairness by presenting a severe attack and also pointing out some other weaknesses.
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@misc{eprint-2005-12378,
  title={Unfairness of a protocol for certified delivery},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / fair exchange; non-repudiation; attacks},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/040},
  note={Technical report jestevez@inf.uc3m.es 12830 received 15 Feb 2005, last revised 16 Feb 2005},
  author={Juan M. Estévez-Tapiador and Almudena Alcaide},
  year=2005
}