Paper 2007/005

Privacy-Protecting Coupon System Revisited

Lan Nguyen

Abstract

At FC’05, Chen et al. introduced an elegant privacy protecting coupon (PPC) system, CESSS05, in which users can purchase multi-coupons and redeem them unlinkably while being prevented from overspending or sharing the coupons. However, the costs for issuing and redeeming coupons are linear to the redeeming limit. Security of the system is not proved and only some arguments on system properties are provided. Coupons last indefinitely and can not be terminated. In this paper, we propose the first PPC system with constant costs for communication and computation. Coupons are revokable and the system is provably secure.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Updated version of the paper published in Financial Cryptography 2006
Keywords
couponanonymityprivacy
Contact author(s)
Lan Nguyen @ winmagic com
History
2007-01-07: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/005
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/005,
      author = {Lan Nguyen},
      title = {Privacy-Protecting Coupon System Revisited},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/005},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/005}
}
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