The design and implementation of a secure auction service

How to obtain full privacy in auctions

“…Starting with the work by Nurmi and Salomaa [37] and Franklin and Reiter [19], numerous secure sealed-bid auction schemes have been proposed in recent years, e.g., [1,2,27,29,32,35,36,44]. Basically, all of the existing protocols have in common that privacy is obtained by distributing the computation of the outcome on a group of third parties.…”

Protocol completion incentive problems in cryptographic Vickrey auctions

“…To prevent the auctioneer from cheating, Franklin and Reiter [15] apply distributed auctioneers using encryption so that without consent among at least a third of them, there could not be any price inflation. Their basic system releases all bids after the close of bidding, though they briefly discuss keeping bidders secret and concealing bids permanently.…”

A secure e-auction scheme based on group signatures

“…There are many e-auction schemes proposed (Chang and Chang 2003;Franklin and Reiter 1996;Harkavy et al 1998;Hwang et al 2002;Kawagoe 1996;Kikuchi et al 1999;Sakurai and Miyazaki 1999;Kudo 1998;Lee et al 2001;Liu et al 2000;Omote and Miyaji 2001;Subramanian 1998). In Subramanian (1998), Subramanian proposed a secure English auction scheme.…”

“…The bidder can submit a bid anywhere and anytime through Internet. Generally, electronic auction can be classified into three types: English auction (Lee et al 2001;Omote and Miyaji 2001) (and Dutch auction is also known as public bid auction), Dutch auction and sealed-bid auction (Chang and Chang 2003;Franklin and Reiter 1996;Kudo 1998). In English auction, each bidder casts his/her public bid on the product, and the bid must be higher than all bids in the previous round of bidding.…”