Abstract
Suppose two parties A, and B, in a communication network, have negotiated a contract, which they wish to sign. To this end, they need a protocol which has the two following properties:
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At the end of an honest execution of the protocol, each party has a signature of the other.
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If one party, X, executes the protocol honestly, his counterpoint, Y, cannot obtain X’s signature to the contract without yielding his own signature.
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Even, S., Goldreich, O., Lempel, A. (1983). A Randomized Protocol for Signing Contracts. In: Chaum, D., Rivest, R.L., Sherman, A.T. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0602-4_19
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