[Resource Topic] 2005/411: More Compact E-Cash with Efficient Coin Tracing

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Title:
More Compact E-Cash with Efficient Coin Tracing

Authors: Victor K. Wei

Abstract:

In 1982, Chaum \cite{Chaum82} pioneered the anonymous e-cash which finds many applications in e-commerce. In 1993, Brands \cite{Brands93apr,Brands93,Brands93tm} and Ferguson \cite Ferguson93c,Ferguson93} published on single-term offline anonymous e-cash which were the first practical e-cash. Their constructions used blind signatures and were inefficient to implement multi-spendable e-cash. In 1995, Camenisch, Hohenberger, and Lysyanskaya
\cite{CaHoLy05} gave the first compact 2^\ell-spendable e-cash, using zero-knowledge-proof techniques. They left an open problem of the simultaneous attainment of O(1)-unit wallet size and efficient coin tracing. The latter property is needed to revoke {\em bad} coins from over-spenders. In this paper, we solve \cite{CaHoLy05}'s open problem, and thus enable the first practical compact e-cash. We use a new technique whose security reduces to a new intractability Assumption: the {\em Decisional Harmonic-Relationed Diffie-Hellman (DHRDH) Assumption}.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/411

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