A fair e-tendering protocol

Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan*, Josef Pieprzyk, Huaxiong Wang

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Abstract

Fairness in electronic tendering is of utmost importance. Current proposals and implementations do not provide fairness and are vulnerable to collusion and favouritism. Dishonest participants, either the principal or tenderer can collude to alter or view competing tenders which would give the favoured tenderer a greater chance of winning the contract. This paper proposes an e-tendering system that is secure and fair to all participants. We employ the techniques of anonymous token system along with signed commitment approach to achieve a publicly verifiable fair e-tendering protocol. We also provide a analysis that confirms that our e-tendering protocol achieves the claimed security goals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSECRYPT 2008 - International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Proceedings
EditorsEduardo Fernández-Medina
Place of PublicationPortugal
PublisherInstitute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Pages294-299
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789898111593
Publication statusPublished - 2008
EventInternational Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2008 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 26 Jul 200829 Jul 2008

Other

OtherInternational Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2008
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period26/07/0829/07/08

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