Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures (Extended Abstract)¶
Asokan, N., Shoup, V., & Waidner, M. (1998). Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures (Extended Abstract). Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT ’98.
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Mechanisms¶
- Escrowed or Conditional Commitment
- It misleads when the release condition is vaguer than it looks: escrow only shifts trust from the counterparty to (a) the custodian and (b) whoever judges the condition, and a fuzzy or manipulable condition just relocates the fight to the payout moment.
This sourceShows that optimistic fair exchange relies on a trusted third party that can resolve or abort the exchange when normal exchange fails.
- It misleads when the release condition is vaguer than it looks: escrow only shifts trust from the counterparty to (a) the custodian and (b) whoever judges the condition, and a fuzzy or manipulable condition just relocates the fight to the payout moment.
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