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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">inf22305</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2011.333</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Secure E-Cash Transfer System Based on the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Popescu</surname><given-names>Constantin</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:cpopescu@uoradea.ro">cpopescu@uoradea.ro</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Oradea, Universitatii str. 1, Oradea, Romania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2011</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>395</fpage><lpage>409</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>09</month><year>2010</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2011</year></date></history><abstract><p>Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is a relatively new, emerging and constantly changing area of business management and information technology. One of the technological innovations in banking, finance and e-commerce is the electronic cash (e-cash) transfer system. E-cash transfer systems refers to the technological breakthrough that enables us to perform financial transactions electronically. In this paper we propose a secure e-cash transfer system based on the elliptic curve cryptography. In order to protect the honest participants of the e-cash system we use an elliptic curve blind signature scheme and also we need a trusted third party to trace the criminals.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>elliptic curve cryptography</kwd><kwd>electronic commerce</kwd><kwd>e-cash system</kwd><kwd>digital signatures</kwd><kwd>wireless communications</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>