Contract signing is a fundamental and frequent service in electronic commerce.All present contract-signing schemes cannot solve the crime of"coercive signing":
B
forces
A
to sign a contract that he would not like to sign.The concept of"coercive signing"is firstly introduced in this paper and an optimistic contract-signing scheme without coercion is proposed by using the properties of conjugate elements in XTR system.With the help of the trusted third party
A
can offer some evidence to abort the contract
so it ensures the fairness of the system furthest.