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Title:      PRIVACY-PRESERVING PHYSICAL DELIVERY IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Author(s):      Esma Aïmeur , Gilles Brassard , Flavien Serge Mani Onana
ISBN:      972-8924-06-2
Editors:      Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaías
Year:      2005
Edition:      Single
Keywords:      Privacy, Anonymous Delivery, Electronic Commerce, Cryptography, Mix-nets.
Type:      Full Paper
First Page:      25
Last Page:      33
Language:      English
Cover:      cover          
Full Contents:      click to dowload Download
Paper Abstract:      Privacy in Electronic Commerce transactions is the subject of ever increasing research. However, many challenges remain to be overcome. For example, let us consider a customer, Sir Bob, who buys anonymously a product over the Internet. Since he must receive delivery, how could his anonymity be maintained? When dealing with digital products, several solutions have been proposed. But if Sir Bob has bought a physical product, then it might seem that he must give an address for delivery. This would obviously threaten his privacy. Until now, while dealing with privacy in e-commerce, the privacy of physical product delivery has not been considered seriously. Instead, the conventional wisdom (which sometimes even appears in print) is that nothing can be done. In this paper, we introduce Anonymous Delivery Centres (ADCs) to complete the anonymity of the buying process on the Internet that we had initiated in our earlier work on Blind Electronic Commerce. These centres enable Sir Bob to pick up the physical product he has bought online without revealing his identity to the merchant.
   

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