Distributed Marketplaces using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography

Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale 2008) · 2008

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Abstract

In the last years the Internet has deeply changed the business world and introduced many new opportunities. Every day billions of dollars are spent in on-line services and electronic transactions among users all over the world. Travel agencies, on-line shops and on-line banking are probably the most popular services nowadays, together with auction websites like Amazon or eBay. Unfortunately, maintaining such services with a centralized architecture is very difficult and expensive. In this paper we introduce a possible architecture for a decentralized marketplace like eBay, that uses an existing P2P networks and well-known cryptographic methods to support secure exchanges and user reputations tracking.

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@inproceedings{distributed-marketplace-p2p-public-key-cryptography},
  title = {Distributed Marketplaces using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography},
  author = {Alessio Signorini and Antonio Gulli and Alberto Maria Segre},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale 2008)},
  month = {06},
  year = {2008},
  url = {https://alessiosignorini.com/publications/distributed-marketplace-p2p-public-key-cryptography/},
}

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Alessio Signorini, Antonio Gulli, and Alberto Maria Segre