Payment to Trustees

Distributed Trustees and Revocability: A Framework for Internet Payment

From von Solms and Naccache’s standpoint, constructing a practical and secure e-money system implies a proper regulation of its privacy level. Furthermore, when the system benefits from a widely connected communication network, tuning precisely this control for achieving efficiency without endangering security is a hard task. In order to solve this specific problem, we propose an e-cash scheme ...

Digital Payment Systems with Passive Anonymity-Revoking Trustees

In: Computer Security { ESORICS 96, volume 1146 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 33 { 43, Springer-Verlag, 1996. Abstract. Anonymity of the participants is an important requirement for some applications in electronic commerce, in particular for payment systems. Because anonymity could be in con ict with law enforcement, for instance in cases of blackmailing or money laundering, it has ...

Trustees to meet , consider Hallahan ' s report

The U niversity’s Board of T rus tees will convene on campus today, tom or­ row and S a tu rd a y for its t r i a n n u a l meeting to discuss and vote on policy issues within the University. The agenda for the closed meetings has not been publicized, but tradition and statements made by University offi­ cials have highlighted various issues that will doubtlessly be discussed. E a r l ie r in t...

Fair Tracing without Trustees

Reputation-aware task allocation for human trustees

Compared to automated entities, human trustees have two distinct characteristics: 1) they are resource constrained (with limited time and effort to serve requests), and 2) their utility is not linearly related to income. Existing research in reputation-aware task delegation did not consider these two issues together. This limits their effectiveness in humanagent collectives such as crowdsourcin...