Efficient and Adaptive Procurement Protocol with Purchasing Privacy

Authors

Peng Jiang, National Center For Nanoscience And Technology BeijingFollow
Fuchun Guo, University of WollongongFollow
Willy Susilo, University of WollongongFollow
Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityFollow
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal UniversityFollow
Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, University of BristolFollow

RIS ID

125005

Publication Details

Jiang, P., Guo, F., Susilo, W., Au, M., Huang, X. & Liu, J. (2018). Efficient and Adaptive Procurement Protocol with Purchasing Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Online first 1-12.

Abstract

A procurement protocol is a protocol for a buyer to purchase digital goods at their prices from a vendor and its privacy preservation can be achieved by priced oblivious transfer (POT). POT allows the buyer to obliviously procure items one by one. An adaptive POT protocol only consumes O(1) communication cost in each transaction. However, we found that the state-of-the-art adaptive POT protocol is less practical and does not meet real-world needs. It restricts only one buyer and the vendor must encrypt all the items for each buyer in the multi-buyer setting. Besides, it has to employ computationally expensive primitives such as zero-knowledge proof. It is therefore unscalable and unsuitable in large-scale applications. In this paper, we propose an efficient adaptive priced oblivious transfer protocol to address the aforementioned problems. The proposed adaptive POT is built on top of a new cryptographic primitive, namely, adaptive set membership encryption (ASME). In our proposed protocol, all items are encrypted without the use of buyers & #x0027; public keys and hence they can be used for universal buyers. Our protocol significantly reduces the transaction cost compared to existing schemes. The implementation shows that our protocol is efficient in terms of bandwidth and computational cost.