Atomicity versus Anonymity: Distributed Transactions for Electronic Commerce

Summary: Examines how distributed transaction atomicity applies to electronic commerce, using NetBill’s highly atomic micropayments and cryptographic postage indicia as case studies. Highlights the fundamental challenges of combining atomic payments with anonymity, including anonymous auctions, and poses open problems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8662
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
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Overall Rank: 14,183 | 2.70%
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1. J. D. Tygar (Carnegie Mellon University; University of California Berkeley)
2. J. D. Tygar (Carnegie Mellon University; University of California Berkeley)

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@article{tygar_vldb98,
        title = {{Atomicity versus Anonymity: Distributed Transactions for Electronic Commerce}},
        author = {Tygar, J. D. and Tygar, J. D.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

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