Paper 2003/055

A New Approach to Prevent Blackmailing in E-Cash

Xiaofeng Chen, Fangguo Zhang, and Yumin Wang

Abstract

Blackmailing may be the most serious drawback of the known electronic cash systems offering unconditional anonymity. Recently, D.Kugler proposed an on-line payment system without trusted party to prevent blackmailing based on the idea of marking. In this paper, some disadvantages of D.Kugler¡¯s scheme are analyzed and then a new online electronic cash scheme to prevent blackmailing is present by using group blind signature technique. In our scheme, the blackmailed cash was marked by an entity, called supervisor, therefore the bank can distinguish it from the valid cash. Also, we can modify our scheme to be offline so that it can used to decrease other crimes, e.g., money laundering, bribery etc. in electronic cash system.

Metadata
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PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Fair Electronic CashGeneral BlackmailingGroup Blind Signature
Contact author(s)
crazymount @ hotmail com
zhfg @ icu ac kr
History
2003-03-31: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/055
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/055,
      author = {Xiaofeng Chen and Fangguo Zhang and Yumin Wang},
      title = {A New Approach to Prevent Blackmailing in E-Cash},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/055},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/055}
}
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