Research Article

A Blockchain-Based Sealed-Bid e-Auction Scheme with Smart Contract and Zero-Knowledge Proof

Table 3

Execution time of each phase with different number of bidders (in milliseconds).

Number of biddersPublishBidOpenVerifyFinish

345.635.772.460.360.9
542.632.7104.565.477.3
742.935.4135.757.4107.8
1543.228.2265.563.6195.2
2546.232.1404.759.4297.5
2946.533.9482.460.1319.9