Fairswap: How to fairly exchange digital goods

S Dziembowski, L Eckey, S Faust - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications …, 2018dl.acm.org
We introduce FairSwap--an efficient protocol for fair exchange of digital goods using smart
contracts. A fair exchange protocol allows a sender S to sell a digital commodity x for a fixed
price p to a receiver R. The protocol is said to be secure if R only pays if he receives the
correct x. Our solution guarantees fairness by relying on smart contracts executed over
decentralized cryptocurrencies, where the contract takes the role of an external judge that
completes the exchange in case of disagreement. While in the past there have been several …
We introduce FairSwap -- an efficient protocol for fair exchange of digital goods using smart contracts. A fair exchange protocol allows a sender S to sell a digital commodity x for a fixed price p to a receiver R. The protocol is said to be secure if R only pays if he receives the correct x. Our solution guarantees fairness by relying on smart contracts executed over decentralized cryptocurrencies, where the contract takes the role of an external judge that completes the exchange in case of disagreement. While in the past there have been several proposals for building fair exchange protocols over cryptocurrencies, our solution has two distinctive features that makes it particular attractive when users deal with large commodities. These advantages are: (1) minimizing the cost for running the smart contract on the blockchain, and (2) avoiding expensive cryptographic tools such as zero-knowledge proofs. In addition to our new protocols, we provide formal security definitions for smart contract based fair exchange, and prove security of our construction. Finally, we illustrate several applications of our basic protocol and evaluate practicality of our approach via a prototype implementation for fairly selling large files over the cryptocurrency Ethereum.
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