Paper 2007/005 Original: eprint.iacr.org/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
Preprint.
History
2007-01-07: last updated
2007-01-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/005
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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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