Micropayment schemes usually do not provide fairness, which means that either the customer or the merchant, or both, can cheat each other and gain a financial advantage by misusing the protocols. This paper proposes a...Micropayment schemes usually do not provide fairness, which means that either the customer or the merchant, or both, can cheat each other and gain a financial advantage by misusing the protocols. This paper proposes an efficient hash chain-based micropayment scheme, which is an offline, prepaid scheme that supports simpler divisibility of digital coins. In the execution of payment protocol, the customer’s dis- bursement and the merchant’s submittal are performed step by step, whoever cannot gain addition profits even if he breaks off the transaction. The hash chain can also be used for transactions with different mer- chants. Unlike other micropayment schemes, e.g., PayWord, no public-key operation is required,which im- proves the efficiency. The scheme also provides restricted anonymity.展开更多
Recent development of the peer-to-peer （P2P） live streaming technique has brought unprecedented new momentum to the Internet with the characters of effective, scalable, and low cost. However, before these applicatio...Recent development of the peer-to-peer （P2P） live streaming technique has brought unprecedented new momentum to the Internet with the characters of effective, scalable, and low cost. However, before these applications can be successfully deployed as commercial applications, efficient access control mechanisms are needed. This work based on earlier research of the secure streaming architecture in Trust- Stream, analyzes how to ensure that only authorized users can access the original media in the P2P live streaming system by adopting a user authentication and key management scheme. The major features of this system include （1） the management server issues each authorized user a unique public key certificate, （2） the one-way hash chain extends the certificate＇s lifetime, （3） the original media is encrypted by the session key and delivered to the communication group, and （4） the session key is periodically updated and distributed with the media. Finally, analyses and test results show that scheme provides a secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient access control solution for P2P live streaming systems.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90104033)
文摘Micropayment schemes usually do not provide fairness, which means that either the customer or the merchant, or both, can cheat each other and gain a financial advantage by misusing the protocols. This paper proposes an efficient hash chain-based micropayment scheme, which is an offline, prepaid scheme that supports simpler divisibility of digital coins. In the execution of payment protocol, the customer’s dis- bursement and the merchant’s submittal are performed step by step, whoever cannot gain addition profits even if he breaks off the transaction. The hash chain can also be used for transactions with different mer- chants. Unlike other micropayment schemes, e.g., PayWord, no public-key operation is required,which im- proves the efficiency. The scheme also provides restricted anonymity.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60673184)the National High-Tech Research and Development(973) Program of China(No.2007AA01Z419)+1 种基金the National Basic Research(863) Program of China(No.2008CB317101)Tsinghua-ChinaCache CDN Program
文摘Recent development of the peer-to-peer （P2P） live streaming technique has brought unprecedented new momentum to the Internet with the characters of effective, scalable, and low cost. However, before these applications can be successfully deployed as commercial applications, efficient access control mechanisms are needed. This work based on earlier research of the secure streaming architecture in Trust- Stream, analyzes how to ensure that only authorized users can access the original media in the P2P live streaming system by adopting a user authentication and key management scheme. The major features of this system include （1） the management server issues each authorized user a unique public key certificate, （2） the one-way hash chain extends the certificate＇s lifetime, （3） the original media is encrypted by the session key and delivered to the communication group, and （4） the session key is periodically updated and distributed with the media. Finally, analyses and test results show that scheme provides a secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient access control solution for P2P live streaming systems.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60775010)the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB311100)+2 种基金the Doctor Science Research Foundation of BJUT (52007016200701)the Excellent Person Development Foundation of Beijing (20061D0501500191)the Foundation for Talents of BJTU (2008RC028)
