Recent research has shown that the single-user security of optimistic fair exchange cannot guarantee the multi-user security. This paper investigates the conditions under which the security of optimistic fair exchange in the single-user setting is preserved in the multi-user setting. We first introduce and define a property called "Strong Resolution-Ambiguity". Then we prove that in the certified-key model, an optimistic fair exchange protocol is secure in the multi-user setting if it is secure in the single-user setting and has the property of strong resolution-ambiguity. Finally we provide a new construction of optimistic fair exchange with strong resolution-ambiguity. The new protocol is setup-free, stand-alone and multi-user secure without random oracles. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Huang, X., Mu, Y., Susilo, W., Wu, W., & Xiang, Y. (2010). Further observations on optimistic fair exchange protocols in the multi-user setting. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6056 LNCS, pp. 124–141). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13013-7_8
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