Paper 2021/1173
Lelantus Spark: Secure and Flexible Private Transactions
Aram Jivanyan and Aaron Feickert
Abstract
We propose a modification to the Lelantus private transaction protocol to provide recipient privacy, improved security, and additional usability features. Our decentralized anonymous payment (DAP) construction, Spark, enables non-interactive one-time addressing to hide recipient addresses in transactions. The modified address format permits flexibility in transaction visibility. Address owners can securely provide third parties with opt-in visibility into incoming transactions or all transactions associated to the address; this functionality allows for offloading chain scanning and balance computation without delegating spend authority. It is also possible to delegate expensive proving operations without compromising spend authority when generating transactions. Further, the design is compatible with straightforward linear multisignature operations to allow mutually non-trusting parties to cooperatively receive and generate transactions associated to a multisignature address. We prove that Spark satisfies formal DAP security properties of balance, non-malleability, and ledger indistinguishability.
Note: Significant updates to add diversified addressing and address reviewer comments.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Major revision. 6th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
- Contact author(s)
- aram @ firo org,aaron @ cypherstack com
- History
- 2024-01-08: last of 10 revisions
- 2021-09-14: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/1173
- License
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CC BY