Traceable decentralized anonymous E-cash system against active attackers

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Abstract

Decentralized e-cash schemes such as Bitcoin have seen widespread adoption due to the elimination of dependence on trusted authorities. However, the decentralization property also brings difficulties on privacy preserving and auditing. Although several approaches have been suggested to support anonymity, none of them has a reliable anonymity revocation mechanism. We fill this gap by presenting a novel e-cash scheme called traceable decentralized anonymous e-cash (TDAE). In TDAE, the transactions can be publicly verified, and the identities of the payers and payees are hidden from everyone except a designated authority. Moreover, we consider active attackers who can corrupt selected authorities along with many users within the e-cash system. We present rigorous security definitions for a TDAE scheme, ensuring that even an active attacker cannot spend more money than he owns, neither can he frame any user that is not corrupted. We also provide a secure generic construction of a TDAE scheme. This construction is built upon several basic cryptographic tools, and thus it enables one to obtain a TDAE with better security and efficiency when advantageous tools are available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages344-349
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728130248
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019
Event17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019 - Fukuoka, Japan
Duration: 5 Aug 20198 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityFukuoka
Period5/08/198/08/19

Keywords

  • Anonymity revocation
  • Decentralized e-cash
  • Privacy protection

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