Secure Auctions without an Auctioneer via Verifiable Secret Sharing
Maya Larson, Chunqiang Hu, Ruinian Li, Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng · 2015
Combinatorial auctions are a research hot spot. They impact people's daily lives in many applications such as spectrum auctions held by the FCC. In such auctions, bidders may want to submit bids for combinations of goods. The challenge is how to protect the privacy of bidding prices and ensure data security in these auctions?