Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin

被引:33
作者
Saxena, Amitabh [1 ]
Misra, Janardan [1 ]
Dhar, Aritra [2 ]
机构
[1] Accenture Technol Labs, Bangalore 560066, Karnataka, India
[2] Indraprastha Inst Informat Technol, New Delhi, India
来源
FINANCIAL CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY: FC 2014 WORKSHOPS, BITCOIN AND WAHC 2014 | 2014年 / 8438卷
关键词
Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Aggregate signatures; Plausible deniability; Anonymity; SEQUENTIAL AGGREGATE SIGNATURES;
D O I
10.1007/978-3-662-44774-1_9
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Bitcoin prevents double-spending using the blockchain, a public ledger kept with every client. Every single transaction till date is present in this ledger. Due to this, true anonymity is not present in bitcoin. We present a method to enhance anonymity in bitcoin-type cryptocurrencies. In the blockchain, each block holds a list of transactions linking the sending and receiving addresses. In our modified protocol the transactions (and blocks) do not contain any such links. Using this, we obtain a far higher degree of anonymity. Our method uses a new primitive known as composite signatures. Our security is based on the hardness of the Computation Diffie-Hellman assumption in bilinear maps.
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页码:122 / 139
页数:18
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