In this article, the Author will talk about what are auctions, what are important issues in online auctions and why Cryptography plays an important role in it. He will also provide pointers for technical details in privacy preserving auctions.
The article is authored by Sujit P Gujar who is a long time CRYPTOcrat (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/401/925) and he is currently a research scholar at Indian Institute of Sciences,
You can find more information about Sujit on his website here: http://people.csa.iisc.ernet.in/sujit
For easier reading this soon to be published article is split into two parts.
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