An Architecture for Secure Generation and Verification of Electronic Coupons
Rahul Dev Garg, Parul A. Mittal, Vikas Kumar Agarwal, Natwar Modani · 2001
Coupons are very useful mechanism for carrying out different marketing management functions like sales promotion, brand promotion, and inventory management. With the advent of Internet shopping and online stores, there is an immediate need for an electronic equivalent of traditional paper coupons. Security issues such as coupon tampering, exchange, duplication and double spending become very important for electronic coupons. Although the security issues in electronic coupons appear to be similar to those in electronic cash systems, there are signi - cant dierences that require the design of a dierent protocol to carry out secure coupon transactions.