A FAIR E-TENDERING PROTOCOL

Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan, Josef Pieprzyk, Huaxiong Wang

2008

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pasupathinathan V., Pieprzyk J. and Wang H. (2008). A FAIR E-TENDERING PROTOCOL . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-59-3, pages 294-299. DOI: 10.5220/0001918602940299

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt08,
author={Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan and Josef Pieprzyk and Huaxiong Wang},
title={A FAIR E-TENDERING PROTOCOL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={294-299},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001918602940299},
isbn={978-989-8111-59-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008)
TI - A FAIR E-TENDERING PROTOCOL
SN - 978-989-8111-59-3
AU - Pasupathinathan V.
AU - Pieprzyk J.
AU - Wang H.
PY - 2008
SP - 294
EP - 299
DO - 10.5220/0001918602940299