Fairness in Certified Electronic Mail

Olivier Cailloux (1) , Nicolás González-Deleito (1) , Olivier Markowitch (1)

1 SCSI - Cryptography and Security Service (Service de Cryptographie et Sécurité Informatique)

The growing use of the Internet promotes the replacement of traditional manual transactions by equivalent electronic services. Research was carried out to investigate enhanced services related to electronic mail. This paper points out that a certified email protocol has to provide the sender of a certified email with an evidence that this email has been either received or refused by its recipient, and proposes a new definition of the fairness property, specific to the certified email field. Finally, a new efficient certified email protocol respecting this property is presented.

Mots clés: computer security; certified email; security protocols; network security

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Olivier Cailloux, Nicolás González-Deleito, Olivier Markowitch. Fairness in Certified Electronic Mail. 2006 International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems, Mar 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand. pp.298 - 303. ⟨hal-00985829⟩