We introduce secure channel injection (SCI) protocols, which allow one party to insert a private message into another party’s encrypted communications. We construct an efficient SCI protocol for communications delivered over TLS, and use it to realize anonymous proofs of account ownership for SMTP servers. This allows [email protected] to prove ownership of some email address @mail.com, without re...

RFID tags travel between partner sites in a supply chain. For privacy reasons, each partner owns the tags present at his site, i.e., the owner is the only entity able to authenticate his tags. When passing tags on to the next partner in the supply chain, ownership of the old partner is transferred to the new partner. In this paper, we propose ROTIV, a protocol that allows secure ownership trans...

The Federal Communications Commission has regulated ownership of mass media outlets since the 1920s. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 abolished some of these regulations, changed others, and required the FCC to review its rules regularly and to repeal those no longer required. There is little opposition to the idea that media ownership policy should promote economic competition (to increase t...

The purpose of this paper is to provide with a preliminary analysis of corporate governance in Argentina. One of the particular features of the local scenario is that many of the most significant local firms have an important degree of ownership concentration. At the same time, this ownership is in the hands of families. The economic reform of the nineties created a significant transfer of owne...

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The question of what should determine the boundaries between public and private firms in an advanced capitalist economy is a highly topical one. In this paper I discuss some recent theoretical thinking on this issue. I divide the paper into two parts. First, I make some general remarks about the relationship between the theoretical literature of privatization and incomplete contracting theories...

This paper reports performance metrics and end-user perceptions of a display leasing service, introduced for a network of public displays. Through leasing, users can acquire a temporary ownership of a public display and utilize it as an application UI element together with a personal mobile device. We argue that this functionality is necessary as the quantity of public displays grows, in order ...

16 • IATSS RESEARCH Vol.27 No.2, 2003 THE ATTRACTIVENSS AND EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT – Is It Affected by the Nature of Ownership? – Corinne MULLEY John D. NELSON Senior Lecturer in Transport Economics Senior Lecturer in Public Transport Systems Transport Operations Research Group (TORG) Transport Operations Research Group (TORG) School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences School of Civil ...

INTRODUCTION Ownership of healthcare providers has been considered as one factor that might influence their health and healthcare related performance. The aim of this article was to provide an overview of what is known about the effects on economic, administrative and health related outcomes of different types of ownership of healthcare providers--namely public, private non-for-profit (PNFP) an...

INTRODUCTION Ownership of the public domain has long been a contentious issue between Western U.S. states and the federal government. The recent armed confrontations at Nevada’s Bundy Ranch and Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge are simply one manifestation of western frustration. Within the last five years the legislatures of seven Mountain West states (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,...