Reference
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Fair E-cash: Be Compact, Spend Faster.
Information Security, 12th International Conference, ISC 2009
(P. Samaranti, M. Yung, F. Martinelli & C. A. Ardagna eds.)
Springer, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. vol. 5735, 2009, p. 294-309
Abstract
We present the first fair e-cash system with a compact wallet that enables users to spend efficiently k coins while only sending to the merchant O(l log(k)) bits, where l is a security parameter. The best previously known schemes require to transmit data of size at least linear in the number of spent coins. This result is achieved thanks to a new way to use the Batch RSA technique and a tree-based representation of the wallet. Moreover, we give a variant of our scheme with a less compact wallet but where the computational complexity of the spend operation does not depend on the number of spent coins, instead of being linear at best in existing systems.
Keywords
Fair e-cash, privacy-preserving, batch RSA, blind signature.