On fair e-cash systems based on group signature schemes

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien Canard;Jacques Traoré

  • Affiliations:
  • France Telecom R&D, Caen Cedex, France;France Telecom R&D, Caen Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ACISP'03 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian conference on Information security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A fair electronic cash system is a system that allows customers to make payments anonymously. Moreover, under certain circumstances, a trusted authority can revoke the anonymity of suspicious transactions. Various fair e-cash systems using group signature schemes have been proposed [4,15,16,18]. Unfortunately, they do not realize coin tracing [4,15,18] (the possibility to trace the coins withdrawn by a customer). In this paper, we describe several failures in the solution of [16] and we present a secure and efficient fair e-cash system based on a group signature scheme. Our system ensures traceability of double-spenders, supports coin tracing and provides coins that are unforgeable and anonymous under standard assumptions.