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Account Guarantee Scheme: Making Anonymous Accounts Supervised in Blockchain

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 21, Issue 1

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406092

Published: 05 January 2021 Publication History

Abstract

In blockchain networks, reaching effective supervision while maintaining anonymity to the public has been an ongoing challenge. In existing solutions, certification authorities need to record all pairs of identities and pseudonyms, which is demanding and costly. This article proposed an account guarantee scheme to realize feasible supervision for existing anonymous blockchain networks with lower storage costs. Users are able to guarantee anonymous accounts with account guarantee key pairs generated from certificated polynomial functions, which inherently maintains one-to-n mapping certifications. Single or limited account guarantee key pairs do not leak privacy. Victims are able to request TCs to screen a cheater or disclose a cheater with enough fraud transactions by themselves. Detailed security and privacy analysis showed that the account guarantee scheme preserves user privacy and realizes feasible supervision. Experimental results demonstrated that the account guarantee scheme is efficient and practical.

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Index Terms

Account Guarantee Scheme: Making Anonymous Accounts Supervised in Blockchain
1. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network privacy and anonymity
2. Security and privacy

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cover image ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 21, Issue 1

Visions Paper, Regular Papers, SI: Blockchain in E-Commerce, and SI: Human-Centered Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things

February 2021

534 pages

ISSN:1533-5399

EISSN:1557-6051

DOI:10.1145/3441681

Editor:
Ling Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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Published: 05 January 2021

Accepted: 01 June 2020

Revised: 01 May 2020

Received: 01 December 2019

Published in TOIT Volume 21, Issue 1

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Zhang MYang MShen GXia ZWang Y(2023)A verifiable and privacy-preserving cloud mining pool selection scheme in blockchain of thingsInformation Sciences10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.169623(293-310)Online publication date: Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.169
Fu KWang LShao WWang WZhang SXu SHu S(2021)Supervisory Scheme for Blockchain Privacy Protection Technique Based on Group SignatureProceedings of the 2021 ACM International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications10.1145/3491396.3506528(223-228)Online publication date: 28-Dec-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491396.3506528

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