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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf16402</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2005.112</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Schemes for Digital Gift Certificates with Low Computation Complexity</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Chang</surname><given-names>Ya-Fen</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:cyf@cs.ccu.edu.tw">cyf@cs.ccu.edu.tw</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Chang</surname><given-names>Chin-Chen</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:ccc@cs.ccu.edu.tw">ccc@cs.ccu.edu.tw</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 40724, R.O.C.</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, 621, R.O.C.</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>503</fpage><lpage>518</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2003</year></date></history><abstract><p>Recently, e-commerce becomes widespread; hence electronic department stores come into being. As a result, Chan and Chang proposed a scheme for digital gift certificates in 2002. Because it is hard to estimate the number of the clients of the electronic department stores, reducing the computation complexity of the electronic department stores becomes an important issue. Due to the need, we propose two schemes for digital gift certificates. Our proposed schemes are very practical since the computation load is light. So the schemes can be applied to the terminals with low computation power.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>digital gift certificate</kwd><kwd>e-commerce</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>