Batch Verification of Validity of Bids in Homomorphic E-auction

Kun Peng; Colin Boyd; Ed Dawson

Paper 2005/346

Batch Verification of Validity of Bids in Homomorphic E-auction

Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, and Ed Dawson

Abstract

Bid opening in e-auction is efficient when a homomorphic secret sharing function is employed to seal the bids and homomorphic secret reconstruction is employed to open the bids. However, this high efficiency is based on an assumption: the bids are valid (e.g. within a special range). An undetected invalid bid can compromise correctness and fairness of the auction. Unfortunately, validity verification of the bids is ignored in the auction schemes employing homomorphic secret sharing (called homomorphic auction in this paper). In this paper, an attack against the homomorphic auction in the absence of bid validity check is presented and a necessary bid validity check mechanism is proposed. Then a batch cryptographic technique is introduced and applied to improve the efficiency of bid validity check.

Note: The paper has been accepted by Internet Communications Security Special Issue of the journal of Computer Communications, but has not been published.

Metadata

Available format(s): PS
Category: Applications
Publication info: Published elsewhere. accepted by Internet Communications Security Special Issue of the journal of Computer Communications
Keywords: homomorphic e-auction bid validity check batch verification oblivious transfer
Contact author(s): k peng @ qut edu au
History: 2005-09-27: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2005/346
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/346,
      author = {Kun Peng and Colin Boyd and Ed Dawson},
      title = {Batch Verification of Validity of Bids in Homomorphic E-auction},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/346},
      year = {2005},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/346}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/346}
}