Electronic transactions with commercial values between two business parties may want to be legally bound. Digital signature is an important security mechanism to provide evidence regarding the status of a transaction. However, evidence solely based on digital signatures may not enforce strong nonrepudiation. Additional mechanisms are required to make digital signatures as valid non-repudiation ...

Background Stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with mental disorders is a well-established and global phenomenon often leading to discrimination and social exclusion. Although previous research in the United States showed that conservative ideology has been related to stigmatizing attitudes toward mental disorders, there is reason to believe that this mechanism plays a different role in...

A HIERARCHICAL TRUSTED THIRD-PARTY SYSTEM FOR SECURE PEER-TOPEER TRANSACTIONS by Khoi Vu Nguyen A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a distributed network of peer computers loosely connected through the Internet. Transactions in a P2P network are often conducted on a no-security basis. Moreover, peer anonymity is often highly desirable, which makes security even more difficult to achieve. In most ca...

Open, distributed and multi-party systems provide an infrastructure on which electronic transactions between organizations can be performed, pervading social and political boundaries to facilitate the realization of novel organizational paradigms. Electronic transactions are, though, prone to uncertainty amongst organizations and which can lead to a perception of vulnerability to exploitative b...

We propose a scheme for privacy-preserving escrow of financial transactions. The objective of the scheme is to preserve privacy and anonymity of the individual user engaging in financial transactions until the cumulative amount of all transactions in a certain category, for example all transactions with a particular counterparty in any single month, reaches a pre-specified threshold. When the t...

Property transactions are one of the most complex and high-risk for consumers. In property transactions, notaries have an important role in ensuring validity protection consumer rights. However, there not been many studies that specifically discuss context transactions. The purpose this study is to analyze This research utilizes qualitative methods. Data was collected through in-depth interview...

Most of us who have purchased items via the Internet have felt reluctant about the transaction at some point — usually when entering our credit card number or receiving unexpected goods. As customers, we need guarantees that the other party will not misuse confidential information, and merchants need guarantees that they will receive payment for the goods delivered. While security protocols suc...

FTX Group was plagued with material related party transactions as well an “unprecedented” lack of internal control. Yet, despite these issues, two the four “Silos” were given unmodified audit opinions. The purpose this paper is not to rehash what went wrong, how and where. Rather, calls into question ability for a public accounting firm issue opinion on financial statements FTX. I will explore ...