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Concise RingCT Protocol Based on Linkable Threshold Ring Signature

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Junke Duan
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Shihui Zheng *
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Wei Wang
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王励成 (Licheng Wang)
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Xiaoya Hu
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Lize Gu
DOI:10.1109/TDSC.2024.3367888delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) is a typical privacy-preserving protocol for blockchain, which is used for the most popular anonymous cryptocurrency Monero in recent years. RingCT provides the user's identity anonymity based on the linkable ring signature. At the cost of that, the transaction size is increased linearly to the involved users. In this article, we aim to overcome this inefficient aspect of RingCT by introducing the linkable threshold ring signature (LTRS). We first propose a construction of threshold ring signatures for homomorphic cryptosystems, and present an efficient instantiation based on the intractability assumption of the discrete logarithm problem. Based on this framework, an efficient LTRS scheme and a novel construction of the RingCT protocol are presented. Our proposed RingCT protocol enables multiple payers to co-construct an anonymous transaction without revealing their secret account keys, and it is more concise under multiple input accounts. For a transaction with a ring size of 100 and the input accounts number of 64, the communication overhead is about 4% of the original RingCT protocol.
Keywords:
Protocols
Security
Blockchains
Public key
Symbols
Generators
Electronic mail
Ring signature
linkable threshold ring signature
anonymity
RingCT
blockchain
cryptocurrency

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IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
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Organization

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beijing university of posts & telecommunications
Scholars:
1.4W
Papers: 1.2W
Citations: 9
B
beijing institute of technology
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5.5W
Papers: 4.0W
Citations: 63