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Title:
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SECURE ANONYMOUS PHYSICAL DELIVERY |
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Author(s):
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Esma Aïmeur , Gilles Brassard , Flavien Serge Mani Onana |
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ISBN:
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ISSN: 1645-7641 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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V IV, 1 |
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Keywords:
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Privacy, Anonymous Delivery, Electronic Commerce, Cryptography, Mix-nets. |
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Type:
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Journal Paper |
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First Page:
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55 |
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Last Page:
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69 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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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 already been proposed. But if Sir Bob has bought a physical product, it might seem that he must give an address for delivery. This would obviously threaten his right to privacy. Until now, the privacy of physical product delivery has not been considered seriously in the context of e-commerce. Instead, the conventional wisdom is that nothing can be done to solve this problem. In this paper, we introduce Anonymous Delivery Centres as the final step to complete our general Blind Electronic Commerce paradigm, which we had initiated in previous work. These centres enable Sir Bob to obtain the physical product he has bought online while keeping his identity confidential. |
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