Title
A protocol for anonymously establishing digital provenance in reseller chains (short paper)
Abstract
An increasing number of Internet traders exclusively sell digital products. These digital products can include media files, licenses, services, or subscriptions. We consider the concept of digital provenance in reseller chains. The goal of this work is to provide an honest customer with a guarantee on the origin and ownership history for a digital item even when the reseller they are dealing with is untrusted. We introduce a protocol called the Tagged Transaction protocol which uses a third party called the Tag Generation Centre (TGC) to provide a method for honest customers to check they are purchasing a legitimate item, anonymity for customers and resellers, a method for customers to resell items they have purchased to other customers, and verification of the TGC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-27576-0_7
Financial Cryptography
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital provenance,increasing number,digital item,short paper,internet trader,reseller chain,tag generation centre,legitimate item,digital product,honest customer,tagged transaction protocol
Internet privacy,Reseller,Computer science,Computer security,Third party,Purchasing,Anonymity,Database transaction,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7035
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Palmer150.84
Kris Bubendorfer234129.28
Ian Welch36312.04