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A Practical English Auction with One-Time Registration
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A Practical English Auction with One-Time Registration
Kazumasa Omote5 and Atsuko Miyaji5 
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School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Asahidai 1-1, Tatsunokuchi, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan |
Abstract
An English auction is the most familiar type of auctions. Generally, an electronic auction has mainly two entities, the registration
manager(RM) who treats the registration of bidders, and the auction manager(AM) who holds auctions. Before starting an auction,
a bidder who wants to participate in English auction is registered to RM with her/his information. An electronic English auction
protocol should satisfy the following nine properties, (a)Anonymity, (b)Traceability, (c)No framing, (d)Unforgeability, (e)Fairness,
(f)Verifiability, (g)Unlikability among different auctions, (h)Linkability in an auction, and (i)Efficiency of bidding. Furthermore
from the practical point of view we add two properties (j)One-time registration and (k)Easy revocation. A group signature
is adapted to an English auction in order to satisfy (a), (b), and (f)[ 18]. However such a direct adoption suffers from the most critical drawbacks of efficiency in group signatures. In this paper
we propose more realistic electronic English auction scheme, which satisfies all of these properties. Four notable features
of our scheme are:
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both of bidding and verification of bids are done quite efficiently by introducing a bulletin board,
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anonymity for RM, AM and any participant can be realized to plural auctions by only one-time registration,
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RM can easily revoke a bidder, and
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nobody can impersonate any bidder
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keywords anonymity - signature of knowledge - bulletin board - easy revocation
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