Distributed Marketplaces Using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography

Alessio Signorini; Antonio Gulli; Alberto Maria Segre

3rd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems

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Distributed Marketplaces Using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.INFOSCALE2008.3572,
    author={Alessio Signorini and Antonio Gulli and Alberto Maria Segre},
    title={Distributed Marketplaces Using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={INFOSCALE},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Distributed Marketplaces eBay P2P Networks Public-Key Cryptography},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.INFOSCALE2008.3572}
}

Alessio Signorini
Antonio Gulli
Alberto Maria Segre
Year: 2010
Distributed Marketplaces Using P2P Networks and Public-Key Cryptography
INFOSCALE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.INFOSCALE2008.3572

Alessio Signorini¹^,*, Antonio Gulli²^,*, Alberto Maria Segre¹^,*

1: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa, IA
2: Ask.com R&D Pisa, Italy

*Contact email: alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu, agulli@ask.com, alberto-segre@uiowa.edu

Abstract

In the last years the Internet has deeply changed the busi- ness world and introduced many new opportunities. Every day billions of dollars are spent in on-line services and elec- tronic 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 web- sites 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 ex- isting P2P networks and well-known cryptographic methods to support secure exchanges and user reputations tracking.

Keywords: Distributed Marketplaces eBay P2P Networks Public-Key Cryptography

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.INFOSCALE2008.3572